Page 74 - Enemy Combatant News Today

Is the president of the united states going to make that decision? is the commander of the chief joint of staff -- i forget who it is, someone in the military is allowed to make that decision as well as, as well as the u.s. attorneys office. there is a tremendous difference on how someone is treated. >> bill: indeed there is. >> if theyre just an american citizen or if theyre considered enemy combatant, about miranda warnings, about habeas corpus, how fast do we have to release him or how fast d...

So we dont need to send him down there. thats doing him a favor. we just need to stop prolonging the agony and get this done and get it over with. >> steve: so he doesnt have to go to gitmo, he can have a military trial in texas or any place? >> absolutely. absolutely. >> steve: all right. how do you feel about the fact that theyre not going to give you the purple heart? >> im angry. i feel very disappointed and i feel like we dont even matter. for this man not to have served one day in a combat...

Process. it slows everything down, and the key to these things is getting information soon. so you dont want to bring somebody, have them mirandized which tells them you dont have to talk to us and by the way well pay for a lawyer in an enemy combatant situation, that is exactly the wrong thing to do. when you criminalize it, it slows things down and more importantly doesnt allow you to get the information you need to protect the united states. >> councilman mike rogers and congressman dutch rup...

>> were not sure yet. we have pretty good indications that he is highly suspected of being involved and again, the problem with criminalizing this is that it lengthens the process. it slows everything down, and the key to these things is getting information soon. so you dont want to bring somebody, have them mirandized which tells them you dont have to talk to us and by the way well pay for a lawyer in an enemy combatant situation, that is exactly the wrong thing to do. when you criminalize it, ...

>> well, first of all, i think mccain, you crazy kids get off my lawn routine doesnt work for him or for the republican party. at the same time, i agree with john mccain and other rand paul critics on a lot of the substance. i think that if were in a time of war and you have a true enemy combatant on soil, the idea that you cant kill them without a trial or due process just doesnt strike me as all that plausible. if nazis were invading, you could shoot them on site without asking them if theyre ...

A civilian court when the organization he is a part of declared war on the united states. >> sean: if thats not an enemy combatant, what is? >> hes giving away enormous opportunities to gather information from people. by trying him in civil court, he gets miranda warnings, he shuts up. dont get as much information, you could have weeks and months of questioning by using the drone program, hes killing sources of intelligence so that we can find out more about what these people plan to do to us, w...

A civilian court when the organization he is a part of declared war on the united states. >> sean: if thats not an enemy combatant, what is? >> hes giving away enormous opportunities to gather information from people. by trying him in civil court, he gets miranda warnings, he shuts up. dont get as much information, you could have weeks and months of questioning by using the drone program, hes killing sources of intelligence so that we can find out more about what these people plan to do to us, w...

>> and jays point is quite relevant to the discussion. anything, any information he gave now that hes been mirandized, none of this can be used, and you tell us, you know, what benefit is that to anybody here. >> right. >> sean: and now he gets to clam up? >> well, again, anybody sophisticated in this sense would know that a, they have a track for intelligence who could care less whether hes convicted or not. >> sean: is he an enemy combatant? >> you put him in a court and if you dont convict hi...

Golder. all right, jay, wait a minute. enemy combatant obviously at war with the united states and spokesman for al-qaeda and bin laden. why? are they that hell bent on giving rights to nonamericanles and mirandizing them so we dont learn anything? >> so think about this for a moment. if you had adolf wiseman in world war ii and his son-in-law was the spokesman for the nazi regime and eichmann and he was captured on the battlefield or in flight which is what happened here, would we then want him...

Of the-- >> and jays point is quite relevant to the discussion. anything, any information he gave now that hes been mirandized, none of this can be used, and you tell us, you know, what benefit is that to anybody here. >> right. >> sean: and now he gets to clam up? >> well, again, anybody sophisticated in this sense would know that a, they have a track for intelligence who could care less whether hes convicted or not. >> sean: is he an enemy combatant? >> you put him in a court and if you dont c...