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Weve got to establish this is a country of law, and of constitutional rights, even if youre somebody thats a terrorist. >> jon, hes the problem with what bob just said. hes right, most of the people were not picked up on battlefields, they were picked up at zoos, they include pita and people that have nothing to do with defending the war on terror. thats why theyre in civilian court. the issue is for the most serious of terrorists, for the joe eh padilla, enemy combatant of the bush administrati...

Subject, disseminated intelligence throughout the community, and throughout this process other agencies in our government and intelligence agencies have helped fbi interrogators through these interrogations. but understand this, chuck. if this notion of whether he should be an enemy combatant or whether he should be tried in a civilian court, if thats the crux of the argument based on what you said is their number one argument, which im not necessarily sure thats what theyve articulated. but if ...

Somebody who tried to blow up an airplane that landed in detroit. i think whats better and what i think would make the american people feel safer is if the people who are trained to interrogate, law enforcement professionals, people with decades of counterterrorism experience, are the ones who are doing this, not politicians in washington. >> fair enough. fair enough, robert. but to that end, did you lose an opportunity to interrogate by mirandising too soon? this was not a product of reflection...

>> no, no, no. >> i want to make the viewers familiar with the procedures. >> take the case of jose padilla. >> if you dont mirandise somebody, investigators cannot go back to him and get him to talk. they cannot cajole him or persuade him. if hes an enemy combatant, they have the ability to go back and talk. >> youre greatly simplifying the process. if someone isnt going to talk, it doesnt matter if theyre going to be read their miranda rights. jose padilla -- weve known for more than eight yea...

You get caught, hold out as long as you can so everybody else can get out. >> stay on brennen for a second. he called boehner and kitt bonn and pete hoekstra and told them he was about to mirandize the -- >> thats what he said. but all four of those members have the same recollection. >> so hes lying? >> thats up for somebody else to determine. >> perino, step over the line. >> im not going to say whether a senior member, someone i have respect for, but i think they have a serious problem. all t...

We are back with congressman jane harman and congress pete hoekstra both key players on terror and security. congresswoman harman agreed with congressman hoekstra that the christmas day bomber should be tried as an enemy combatant say 76%, and 19% say he should be charged as an ordinary criminal as the obama administration wants. who is right? >> well, this argument is wrong and let me tell you why, wolf. we missed the opportunity after 9/11 to put a clear set of rules around interrogations and ...

Criminal 76% enemy combatant. away from administration policy right now. >> it helps explain why the administration is so defensive and gone on the attack on this issue. its on the wrong side of public opinion. its on the wrong side of logic and reason on this issue. but, i think its okay to have, as mort would characterize it, ideological war over this. there is no more important issue than terrorism. and there is no more important political debate than how do you interrogate? how do you detain...

Being questioned as an enemy combatant. michael mukasey made that point, an presiding judge over some of the case. they have misstated what general mukasey said. this is a collection of facts they pulled together. they have bad policies, they shouldnt -- they should have gotten the intelligence community in on the interrogation, they should never have disclosed the fact that his family was the one that urged him to talk, because that puts a bulls-eye on the familys back and tells future sources ...

This particular case, between those two things? >> obviously, theyre coming out with new facts, the story is changing as it goes along. first they said they mirandaized him when he came out. so the facts are changing as they leak them out. and the important thing to know is that director muller has long said, we should not automatically mirandaize. we should consult the intelligence community first. and the intelligence chiefs were very disappointed that they had not. now, sometimes, a suspect w...

An enemy combatant. thats what abdulmutallab should have been -- he should have been questioned. >> how would that have made a difference? sorry to interrupt, but what, specifically, are the different interrogation techniques we have now? because, as you know, the president made some changes when he came into office about how detainees could be questioned. so substantively, what are the differences between calling someone an enemy combatant, how you would interrogate them, versus how you would i...