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Frustration of the u.s. investigators and members of the senate intelligence committee. >> once the president in january of 2009 signed the executive order saying were going to shut down guantanamo, any enemy combatant as this individual is, there is no policy in place to take possession of him. interrogate him in a way we can gain valuable information. >> state department would not comment. >> the president made clear, the secretary made clear that we are intent on figuring out who did this and...

The f.b.i. does not have that access. >> bret: greg palkot was on the ground giving a tour of the compound. you are not happy with the hunt for people responsible? >> im not in least. neither with the way it proceededdor access weve been given. this individual in the hands of tunisian is a classic example of what happens when you have lack of policy and detention and interrogation. once the president in january of 2009 signed the executive order, saying we are going to shut down guantanamo, any ...

Or not but if we presume its a suspected target and lets say youre within the killing range, and you are a male under 45, you are presumed to be an enemy combatant and you are vaporized. that is u.s. foreign policy. now, we need -- first of all discuss whether that is what we want u.s. foreign policy to be, but secondly, david, we need to have a discussion on what got us here. what got us here was the fact that dana priest at "the washington post" wrote a column that upset a lot of lawmakers, ac...

immigrants in the u.s. supporters hail the shift in immigration policy as a humanitarian moment in history. but critics call the move outrageous, even arrogant. we put the immigration overhaul in focus. families so devastated by the economy, they are abandoning their children in orphanages. well tell you where. its a real crisis, tearing communities apart. good morning, everyone. im randi kaye. its 8:00 on the east coast, 5:00 a.m. out west. state tv in saudi arabia says crown prin...

Revelations about george w. bush came out really grasped some of the things going on -- he had that kill list store pep an item in there that said when these drone strikes take place and time to tally up the amount that were killed, any male usually, any male in an area of come watt is considered an enemy combatant. you dont know how many of them could possibly be innocent. youre just saying if youre male, you deserved it. thats the accounting system were using for tallying these things up. i do...

This week the new york times published a huge story on how president obama is using those powers. it reports that president reviewes a top secret kill list in order to personally decide whom the military should target for drone attacks. some have strong precedence in history. like targeting a foreign enemy combatant in the battlefield. other calls are merckier like deciding who is an enemy off the battlefield or when the military can kill american citizens. here is an example from last september...

James rosen on charges of fuzzy math. >> this is what we see of the expanded use of drone to strike at terrorist, craters in the ground, sheet-covered corpses, but the white house is rejecting charges to counter them to reduce civilian death recorded in the drone campaign. >> we have it avoidance of the casualties much easier. >> "new york times" tuesday reported that president obama ordered all military age male killed in range of a drone strike found as enemy combatant. some believe its calibr...

Military? >> well some law enforcement, whether its federal or state, but, yeah, they would go into the federal, criminal system. there would be no option for the government to treat them as an enemy combatant, even for a short period of time and lawfully interrogate them. it was a pass go, directly to federal court, no enemy combatant. martha: its been shot down in the house. >> right. martha: i know youre happy to hear that. you feel like there needs to be adjustments made. you think both side...

Suspects who are cap tao*urd on u.s. soil. michael mukasey fought against this amendment. he spoke to us in "americas newsroom" yesterday about it. he says it would have rewarded terrorists. here he is talking about it yesterday on our show. >> this would require that anybody taken into custody in the united states would automatically get miranda warnings, be brought into the civilian system, no questioning at all for intelligence, no turning over to the military eventually, no designation as an...

Enemy combatant. the proponents of this say they are protecting american citizens. it doesnt only apply to american citizens. in the last seven years there have been only four american citizens who have been designated as unlawful enemy combatants and there is no doubt that they all deserved it. this is legislation to solve a problem that doesnt exist and that would hurt our attempt to deal with foreign terrorists. it would incentivize them to go to the united states because they get full consti...