Eric Holder

Terrorist suspects tried in Article III courts. Convicted?

I despair frankly when I see the Justice Department attacked for the same thing the last administration did...

I think that almost any objective observer can look at that report, compare those recommendations to where the past Administration was, where this Administration is, and make a determination.

There are a number of exceptions to the Miranda rule that I think are appropriate.

We will use our Inspector General, and the other mechanisms that we have, to ensure that money is being spent programmatically.

A person charged with murder, many of these defendants are, these defendants charged with murder are treated just like any other murder defendant would be.

In some ways, I think they are comparable people.

We are talking about a hypothetical that will never occur. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama Bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom. That is a reality. That is a reality.

It is unfair that the local communities wherever these cases might be tried should bear a disproportionate share for what in essence, as I said, are national crimes.

We have the ability to get our secret information through the Classified Information Protection Act (CIPA).

We have in our budget for next year a $1.4 million increase so that we can hire 14 attorneys in our Civil Rights Division.

I will do what the statute says that we have to do, we will do it right.

The money that we have sought for the potential trials I think would probably be appropriate almost regardless of where the trial would be held.

We have a dedicated crew of lawyers headed by the head of our civil division, Tony West.

What we decide to do in dealing with these terrorists says more about us than it does about them.

but we cannot allow the politics of fear to drive us apart.

We need to stick with what works.

There is a misperception that somehow or another if we have a trial in an Article III court this will become a forum for these defendants to spout their hateful language.

I think we have to use all the tools that we can to stop the flow of guns from the United States into Mexico.

I think that we should have great faith in the resilience of our systems, resilience of our people.

One of the things that we are doing is hiring more judges to have more people to hear these cases.

Again, we are at war and we must use every instrument in our power, including the full scope of our military, law enforcement, intelligence, and diplomatic capabilities to win this war, but in the pursuit of victory we must not turn our…

There has never been, as far as I know, a terrorism trial that ended in a pretrial release of somebody on the basis of some technicality.

We certainly have to make sure that we have a good information flow between the United States and Mexico.

When the principals of those agencies met to make final determinations with regard to the disposition of the 240 detainees, all of the decisions were unanimous.