Page 22 - Terrorism Cases News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Checks generally? >> they're supposed to be very extensive. each one has a different level of things to get that clearance, these are done by contractors and whether you get a good one or not depends on who that is contracted out to and particular investigators. >> all right wh. i was an intern for three months in 1978, the fbi did a background check on me and everybody else, whatever happened to the fbi doing background checks? we don't have money or man power? >> they still do background checks for certain positions this the government. white house level positions and other position that's r...

Tsarnaev starts cooperating with investigators as he did before he was mirandized. could this be why we're seeing these new developments and hearing these new details? >> i think there's probably two reasons and, yes, one is clearly at this stage this is taking the death penalty off as an option is a great bargaining chip. we should not do this as, oh, he's not going to get the death penalty, we're loosening up on him. this is very common in serious cases when you want to get information out of the living defendant who everyone agrees at least from the narrative was probably the less powerful,...

>> eric: you think they should? >> yes, i do. it's allowed under the law. i believe so. in i think in any event you ought to push it. the only thing that would happen is he would file habeas corpus petition challenging it. if the district judge agreed with him it could go up to the fifth circuit and supreme court. half could question him in the meantime. i believe it would be upheld. >> eric: you tried as a federal judge terrorist cases in court and the administration says it's a standard procedure to put the terrorism cases in the civilian court system. >> civilian court tried terrorism cases...

Constitutional rights and the tenants of this system. and we need to keep that in mind. we hear nonsense like america's a battlefield so even for u.s. citizens we can throw it all out the window from here going forward because of sudden nebulous war on terror. >> that's the debate, kelly. you've done terrorism cases. when you have senators like lindsey graham saying that the suspect should be tried as an enemy combatant and then "the new york times" comes back with an editorial -- "mr. graham's reckless statement makes a mockery of the superb civilian police work that led to the suspect's capt...

Information, but also on the response, were there lessons learned in terms of what has unfolded the last five days. but those are two important points and that should be natural. we talk about a resilient society. one of the aspects of a resilient society is we learn from mistakes made in the past. but the other aspect of this that i do, i want to make clear, this was not political. there is about to be likely a huge political debate about the use of our u.s. criminal courts for terrorism cases. i stand pretty firm as many people in the counterterrorism field do that our courts have the capaci...