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This, whatever you have to do to get to the truth, start with you, professor, what you to believe is an acceptable set of parameters for how you treat a suspect in these situations? let s remember, we have precedent here. we had much, much worse terrorists in this country called the weather men. they were bred at home, they were all american kids, they were wealthy. they were well educated. they made anti-personnel bombs. they planned to kill many, many american soldiers at ft. dix, columbia university students. we treated them with kid gloves, nobody talked about enemy combat, one is teaching at columbia and another at chicago, robert redford is making a movie about them. we have a real, real double standard here. there is no way that these people are going to be treated as enemy combatants. this is going to be an ordinary criminal trial, we re going to try get as much information from them, but the best way to get the information is bargain, to exchange his life, possibly, for the ....
Don t kill him, we re going to detain him anyway because he s an enemy combatant. he s an alien beligerent and the reason we say we want to have a sa r civilian trial to all the world is we want to showcase our system of justice in this country. fair and impartial. but still no trial, no indictment, and if he s not convicted, we will detain him anyway. so you re suggesting that this would be, perhaps, the most expensive show trial in history. well, what i think with conclusion a foregone conclusion. what i m suggesting is there s a political calculus and we ve seen it with the christmas bomber. there was a huge outcry in america that we didn t do enough to interrogate him so now we say on a daily basis, let s open up our war room. let s open up the defense and intelligence sources and say, oh, no, his family helped. he s turning people in. ....