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Jurisdiction to get involved. any legal jurisdiction at all to end the forced feeding program at guantanamo. she wrote, "no court, justice or judge shall have jurisdictions to hear any aspect of the detention, transfer, treatment, trial or conditions of confinement of an alien who has been properly detained as an enemy combatant." courts are constrained by a lack of jurisdiction to rule on whether or not these prisoners should be forced to undergo a procedure that the judge calls a painful, humi...

Defending, hasan said the taliban. >> anyone who knows the facts know that this was a terrorist attack. >> reporter: the obama administration has refused to call it that. but officials are pushing back at critics who accuse them of labelling it nothing more than an office shooting. the army sent a letter to congress saying there has been no decision to classify this shooting as workplace violence. before the attack hasan exchanged 20 emails with a cleric. the evidence indicates this was the alle...

Were working so closely with this man that you would ever have to say the words you just said about him, that he is effectively an enemy combatant? >> no. i never felt that way because i had works with him two weeks prior on the 18th of october at darnell army hospital. and during that time frame he showed no signs or symptoms of being disgruntled with our government or being disgruntled with the system of government that we are living up under right now. so there again, hes very smart and craft...

>> absolutely. and that recruiting drive has already started. if you look at the soldier that was awol from ft. campbell that came to ft. hood and we caught him in his hotel with a dirty bomb, when they arrested him he yelled out major hasans name as if he was an idol for this young man. and this young man had never deployed before. now, the other thing thats going to happen is that major hasan is suspecting because we suffer from ptsd or tbi that were going to be afraid to stand in front of him...

American-born muslim. this changes everything, doesnt it? you cant have a statement saying i did this specifically to defend taliban leaders like mullah omar and others from the american military. that positions him as a straightforward enemy combatant and terrorist. >> thats the definition of terrorism as far as i know. you can argue semantics all you want about terrorism or not. but this certainly looks like it is part of the war weve been fighting since the early 90s, when they tried to blow ...

The right to choose himself as a lawyer. and thats what hes done. and he is going to raise this ridiculous defense. but what else clearly doing, again, as the staff sergeant said, is going to be basically a form of martyrdom. he knows hes going to get the death penalty. and hes going to embrace it and show why hes giving his life for his cause. >> the american government and american military have been very keen not to have this whole incident from the moment it happened portrayed as a terrorist...

Straightforward enemy combatant and terrorist. >> thats the definition of terrorism as far as i know. you can argue semantics all you want about terrorism or not. but this certainly looks like it is part of the war weve been fighting since the early 90s, when they tried to blow up the world trade center, the first time. that radical islam is the tie among all these connections and this is just the latest. >> is there any argument -- weve seen this before at the trifle zacarias moussaoui, the mis...

>> did you ever feel when you were working so closely with this man that you would ever have to say the words you just said about him, that he is effectively an enemy combatant? >> no. i never felt that way because i had works with him two weeks prior on the 18th of october at darnell army hospital. and during that time frame he showed no signs or symptoms of being disgruntled with our government or being disgruntled with the system of government that we are living up under right now. so there a...

Immigration laws as where he will as pass them. >> i want to pick up on this question of boston in another issue. because as soon as dzhokhar tsarnaev was arrested in the boston bombings, you and lindsey graham were very clear. he needs to be treated as an enemy combatant. he need to not get his miranda rig rights. but president obama and some of these top officials have pers t persisted in talking about this as just brothers acting alone. take a look. >> one of the dangers that we now face are ...

Immigration laws as where he will as pass them. >> i want to pick up on this question of boston in another issue. because as soon as dzhokhar tsarnaev was arrested in the boston bombings, you and lindsey graham were very clear. he needs to be treated as an enemy combatant. he need to not get his miranda rig rights. but president obama and some of these top officials have pers t persisted in talking about this as just brothers acting alone. take a look. >> one of the dangers that we now face are ...