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This instance. if you look at the law whether it is international law or the u.s. law, there are certain criteria that you have to meet before you can put somebody into a military commission. he does not meet those criteria, and so the fallback and the appropriate fall fallback in the instance is a civilian court. >> and people say, why not treat him as an enemy combatant instead? >> well, the difficult cull ti of defining people the way we have as an enemy combatant as we did in guantanamo is t...

Naive idea that puts peoples lives at risking. >> thats not what i said. >> but let me finish. you are dealing with some of the most sadistic people in the world. you got to sometimes go to a little bit of their level to get anything out of them and hes a terrorist. he should be treated as such. >> but, ben, dont you think on some level -- >> let me respond. two things. >> i want to ask ben this question. there have been other terrorists tried in u.s. courts and successfully prosecuted by u.s. a...

Bastardized, contorted, twisted, unamerican version of justice. theyre going to give this guy the miranda warning. im not the aclu, but they and others will be on this case. theyre going to give him a week after theyve interrogated him on the ship. and theyre proud to say, were doing this on international waters. so there is no issue in terms of america and the constitution is on our side. this is bad for two reasons. you cant fight the war on terror in a courtroom. number one. number two, were ...

Heres the president. >> when americans are attacked, no matter how long it takes, we will find those responsible and we will bring them to justice and thats a message i said the day after it happened, and regardless of how long it takes, we will find you and i want to make sure that everybody around the world hears that message very clearly. >> the president speaking yesterday, i should note the raid was over the weekend. peter, on capitol hill you would expect people to say maybe its about time...

Other guys. yet. how likely are we to get those other guys? >> well, listen, the cia and the fbi are motivated. theyre the best of the best in the world. no matter what anyone says. that being the case, were prepared, our special operations guys are ready to get these guys. we find out where they are, all we have to do, im not trying to over simplify it, but it valley a matter, locate, identify and either capture or kill, but we know who these players are, neil, and we have known for some time. ...

They could declare him an enemy combatant. thats what it takes. the president does that. and then he could be taken to guantanamo bay. but thats not going to happen. the administration has made it quite clear that they are not going to send anybody to guantanamo bay. they went out of their way to say the president or this administration hasnt sent anyone there since president obama was sworn in and that he will be tried in civilian court. so hes coming here within a matter of days, perhaps early...

And this is an enemy combatant so theres a different attitude. >> well, my question is, and im about to go live to gitmo in a few minutes, but its not like this military tribunal business is somehow efficient. hasnt the federal -- hasnt the civilian court arguably handled these terrorism cases in a much swifter way? >> well, i would argue that with respect to the civilian court and not granting the full due process rights, we do at the end of the day in the opinion of a lot of prosecutors have a...

Simple thing once he is brought to the united states. im sure in congress in the next couple of days, were going to hear some com plants, that he should be brought before a military trial perhaps and given more type to get intelligence from him. that is what is being done right now. we know the raid occurred over the weekend at right now theyre doing an lblgs debrief on him. theyre basically asking him questions for intelligence reasons trying to figure out what else they can learn about the gro...

Theres no chance thats where this administration is going to send them. >> youre right. theyre not going to send him there. thats unfortunate. hes an enemy combatant and this idea youll charge him -- look what you just read as charges. using a deadly weapon. were not talking about a burglary at a 7-eleven here. a terrorist attack coordinated by enemy combatants and we treat these as traditional criminal charges misses the point but puts the country at risk. >> what about miranda rights? there ha...

Ive always known that whether you served a day or a thousand days, we were not going to leave you behind without exhausting all of our best efforts to bring you home. ive heard the controversy around how he may or may not have departed his base and fell into taliban hands. none of that matters. he is still ours. until he is adjudicated otherwise. until he renounces his united states citizenship, until he becomes an enemy combatant, he belongs to us which means we will go and get him no matter wh...