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You get a lawyer when you go before a h habeus judge and the judge decides whether or not the evidence justifies you being confined asin enemy combatant. in world war ii when we captured a nazi and german prisoner or japanese prisoner we didnt give them a lawyer. you capture thenmy, get them off the battlefield and question them about what the enemy is up to. you dont provide them lawyers. to say that giving anenmy combatant a lawyer within 50 minutes is crazy. we have never done this in any oth...

Terrorism advisor in the white house. you say he has lost your confidence, do you believe that he should -- >> absolutely. i dont see how most persons can feel safe when the head of counter terrorism says you can get all the information you need within 50 minutes of an interview of a guy who tried to blow up an airplane and tries to tell us that the process did work and say that a 20% recidivism rate is okay in the war on terror. he lost my confidence and i think he is disconnected from the thre...

Terrorism advisor in the white house. you say he has lost your confidence, do you believe that he should -- >> absolutely. i dont see how most persons can feel safe when the head of counter terrorism says you can get all the information you need within 50 minutes of an interview of a guy who tried to blow up an airplane and tries to tell us that the process did work and say that a 20% recidivism rate is okay in the war on terror. he lost my confidence and i think he is disconnected from the thre...

You get a lawyer when you go before a h habeus judge and the judge decides whether or not the evidence justifies you being confined asin enemy combatant. in world war ii when we captured a nazi and german prisoner or japanese prisoner we didnt give them a lawyer. you capture thenmy, get them off the battlefield and question them about what the enemy is up to. you dont provide them lawyers. to say that giving anenmy combatant a lawyer within 50 minutes is crazy. we have never done this in any oth...

Courts in new york. former vice-president cheney has criticized it and theyre backing away from that. the public in dealing with captured terrorists, the public is not with them, and the truth is on that count, the obama administration has handled things extremely poorly. >> you know, the vice-president was interesting. he said he had differences with the bush administration, and the shoe bomber. he thought he said reed should go into a military tribunal and be treated as an enemy combatant. wer...

There is frustration. thats what drives lynch mob mentality. weve always had that sort of tension. the fact remain there is have been three convictions under military tribunals, three are now free. its no great guarantee anything is going to happen in terms of guaranteeing guilt and a long sentence to do the tribunal route. when richard reid came up in civilian court and tried to make the case he wanted to be called a soldier, he wanted to be treated in the terms of war, the judge on the case sa...

Abdulmutallab to blow up that airliner over the skies of detroit. heres what dick cheney had to say about that incident. >> i think the proper way to deal with it would have been to treat him as an enemy combatant. i think that was the right way to go. the thing i learned from watching that process unfold though was that the administration really wasnt equipped to deal with the aftermath of an attempted attack against the united states in the sense that they didnt know what to do with the guy. >...

Treat him as an enemy combatant. i think that was the right way to go. the thing i learned from watching that process unfold though was that the administration really wasnt equipped to deal with the aftermath of an attempted attack against the united states in the sense that they didnt know what to do with the guy. >> reporter: dick cheney saying today that he believes that any and all operational or interrogation techniques should be employed, including and up to waterboarding. hes not backing ...

Issue, the christmas day bombing suspect should be tried as an enemy combatant, 76% say he should be. only 19% say he should be tried as an ordinary criminal, which is what the obama administration wants to do. whos right? >> well, i think this argument is really foolish, wolf. let me explain why. we missed an opportunity right after 9/11 to put a very xlecle set of rules around interrogations and detentions of all of these folks arrested after that date. we missed it and we have been in a hodge...

You probably saw where this is weekly standard column, jennifer ruben and the subject is eric holder botches the war on terror. holder is the guy who is the one who decided, reinvestigate the employees that cleared on interrogation. trying the terrorists and treating the defendant not as an enemy combatant. then during testimony it was quite palpable and strange when you saw eric holder say, well, i dont rule out mir andizing osama bin laden if we capture him. we give all of that, holtders job i...