I think it is important that the executive branch strike the right balance between preserving the rule of law and releas...
When you try a person in civilian court, you have to give the Miranda warning upon taking them into custody.
You take them into military custody, and then you can try them at your option in civilian courts.
I think it is fair to say you would make some individual determinations on cases.
We need a policy, No. 1.
I hope that you will review that, and I hope the New York case will be the beginning of a re-evaluation of that policy.
Well, so I would just say that there is not exactly a clean slate and you decide each case based on the facts of that ca...
This is really significant, the whole thing is.
Why wouldn't that be the right way to start the case and have a policy for every FBI agent, every police officer, every ...
You are going to get less actionable intelligence than if you did not do so.
You declared in this Committee directly that it was going to be tried in New York, and you defended that as an appropria...
I think it is pretty clear that the administration has been slow in making those nominations.
It just makes perfect sense to me that these cases would be tried there.
After 9/11, our Nation fundamentally re-evaluated its approach to terrorism.
You had a commission, you co-chaired the commission to decide what to do, and you concluded that even those who had alre...
I think the simpler and more logical decision would be to reconsider fundamentally and try this case where it should be,...
We then began to establish a military commission framework consistent with history for the detention, interrogation, and...
We recognized that we are at war and that our normal criminal justice procedures were not designed for and not appropria...
