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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130418:00:46:00

that we're using for this pressure cooker bomb? >> well, you can use it. under the wmb statute, a bomb of that can be considered a wmb. >> i did not know that. >> there's your terrorism charge, potentially. so, i personally believe terrorism is a form of criminali criminality, should be treated as so. that's not to say there are other tools in the toolbox that should be discounted. for example, if you have something that's considered a national security investigation, you get authority to do things like fiza, national security letters, things like that. those are all valuable intelligence collection tools. >> then we get to this interesting point, right, if it's someone who's a domestic u.s. citizen, presumably that national security aspect will not be brought into play, right, if it is a foreign national presumably it will. i wonder what your reaction is to that, henna.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130418:03:47:00

like fiza, national security letters, things like that. those are all valuable intelligence collection tools. >> then we get to this interesting point, right, if it's someone who's a domestic u.s. citizen, presumably that national security aspect will not be brought into play, right, if it is a foreign national presumably it will. i wonder what your reaction is to that, hina. >> chris, i think what this really hones in on is the fundamental question we've had since 9/11, which is does an act of terrorism cause us to change our laws, our values, our principles, and the bottom line is that it doesn't. if there's anything that we've learned, one of the main lessons of 9/11 has been if we go away from our laws, values, and principles, that's when we do wrong to our national security, to the rights of individuals, both innocent and accused, and we hurt our ability to bring perpetrators to justice. >> don's not saying that, don's saying when we talk about something as national security related in the context of an

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