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>> you know, i think that's also a great question because i do have is to weigh those things. on criminal justice in our opposite sides, many civil libertarian issues, opposite sides. whether or not an american citizen could be detained that is declared some sort of enemy combatant by the state or the executive branch, we're on different sides. these are issues that are very important to me. but i think it's also the understanding i didn't win i don't get to pick. it wornt be my first choice. i believe jeff sessions is honest and i think it's unfair people are characterizing him as a racist. i...

Would be. that we work with the congress to come up with a legal regime that recognizes that gathering intelligence is the most important activity in the law against radical islam. the goal is to find out what they know. do you agree with that? >> that is a critical goal. >> and i have found that under military law and military intelligence gathering, no manual i've ever read suggested that reading miranda rights is the best way to gather information. as a matter of fact, i've been involved in this business for 33 years. and if a commander came to me as a jag and said, we just captured somebod...

So, let's talk about the law of war. i think you were asked about senator feinstein about the indefinite detention. homdy versus rumsfeld, this is sandra day o'connor's quote. there is no bar to this nation's holding one of its own citizens as an enemy combatant. that case involved a u.s. citizen that was captured in afghanistan and was held as an enemy combatant. are you familiar with that case? >> generally yes. not as familiar as you, but i know you studied it in great depth. >> this has been a military lawyer, this is part of what i did. do your constitutional rights as a u.s. citizen stop...

Suspected of being an enemy combatant within a certain period of time, 60 days, i think, the government has to present you to a federal judge and prove by a preponderance of the evidence that you are a member of the organization they claim you to be a member of. are you familiar with that? your habeas rights? >> correct, yes. >> so, as to how long an enemy combatant can be held, traditionally under the law of war, people are taken off the battle field until the war is over, they are no longer a danger. does that make sense to you? >> it does make sense and that is my understanding of the tradi...

About the waterboarding of other individuals, including enemy combatant abu zub zubaida and he testified about what worked better in 2009. >> from my experience, i to use what has become known as enhanced interrogation these techniques from an operational perspective are and harmful to our efforts to defeat al qaeda. >> that's the view from someone who knows. another experiencedahead. we studied medieval times. not since medieval times have people seen what's going on. it's the phillips' lady!