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States. and an enemy combatant, where you are connected to a foreign group, trying to do harm to the united states. you can be taken into custody by the military, 30 days and questioned. after 30 days, you are sent to the civilian system? >> in his case, he was never eligible for trial by the military. thats different. i am talking about gathering intelligence. there are two systems in play, to prosecute him for the crimes and to collect intelligence to protect me and you against future attacks ...

Civilian and military, i support the concept that no one should be required to incriminate themselves while theyre in the custody of the government. that is a long held jurisdiction in the military and civilian setting. no criminal defendant should ever be required to incriminate themselves in a criminal case. every nation at war should have the ability to defend themselves by gathering intelligence. these are not mightually exclusive concepts. i believe our nation is at war. the enemy is radica...

Recipient colonel jack jacobs. we discussed the devastating effects of post-traumatic stress disorder on u.s. troops after being battle in iraq and afghanistan, and the difference between fighting in vietnam like he did and fighting wars today. first i asked the colonel about the use of drones in the fight against terrorism? >> its extremely successful if the infrastructure of the taliban and al qaeda, but by identifying the enemy on the ground through various means of gathering intelligence. th...

Bahrain, oman. were remaining in that region. if we had remained in iraq, we werent allowed outside of the green zone of baghdad. so any counterterrorism efforts of gathering intelligence, we can easily do from a place in kuwait. finally if we had left our troops in iraq, they could have only remained there subject to the court system in iraq. i never would want to have our troops under a court system of iraqi jurisdiction. we can with our fleets and our air forces and our army units there certa...

gunman, and new emergency alert system put to the test. we have a deal. leaders of the eu crisis say they have a plan to save a continent. so how are stocks reacting and why isnt britain onboard. and iran shows off what it claims is a top u.s. secret drone, but is it the drone or dummy? some say iran may be pulling a bait and switch on this "american morning." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com and good morning to you. happy, happy friday. it is december 9th. >> carols favorit...

this is a crew speeding away from the rixos hotel in tripoli where gadhafi loyalists, the gunmen who had been holding these men and women captive for five-plus days. now and only now can they tell their story. we will hear it coming up. something here, the cnn crew, among dozens of international journalists, as i mentioned at the rixos hotel, between 30 and 35 journalists were held inside for five-plus days trying to negotiate the release according to our matthew chance, every hour, ...

Activity. so weve heard a lot about his favorite wife, how she might be privy to more information and this is the woman we understand the u.s. officials are most interested in speaking to, too. >> thanks so much. lets bring in nbc news chief pentagon correspondent gym miklaszewski. any idea how soon u.s. officials will be allowed to question these women and what specific intelligence does the u.s. hope to get from them? >> reporter: well, its not quite clear, martin, yet exactly what that timi...

You just read from the pakistani taliban lead of wouldnt -- we wouldnt be hearing regardless. so i dont know that not releasing the photograph doesnt -- isnt ultimately dispositive on that. >> michael isikoff, thank you. the second question we posed on this broadcast, would the presidents action against bin laden silence his critics? and the answer came swiftly, and predictable form. >> i praise the president yesterday i think it was a gutsy move that he decided to go in and get him so we coul...

The idea that you could have a guy for 50 minutes and get everything you want to get is ridiculous. particularly if you are having him interrogated by people who are f.b.i. agents and local law enforcement and dont know right questions to and. >> the feb fib is taxed with gathering intelligence. >> thats right. since last november, the administration said it would have a key target interrogation group that will have the kind of empty inform that would allow them to get more information it was no...

Biggest foreign policy issues, thats pretty damning, you have the cia director unable to do that. >> senator collins is ed his difference. theres a difference between cia director of gathering intelligence, conducting covert places, maybe operations getting rid of bad guys, verse being the diplomatic leader of the united states and the world where we are trying to get countries to join us in common cause. thats a totally different skill set. while he may have information about some of these hot ...