Eric Holder

Well, what is your proof that if he were whisked off to a military facility and questioned by military people, even without the presence of a lawyer, that information you would receive would have been more voluminous, would have been…

What Osama Bin Laden is responsible for are both, as I said, and I have consistently said, both acts of war and also criminal acts.

if you take from us the ability that has been used by Republican and Democratic administrations and attorneys general to use the Article III courts in the successful way that we have you will weaken our effort in this war that we must win.

I understand that we are at war with Al-Qaeda, and that is why we have 30,000 additional troops in Afghanistan.

One thing I think we have to recognize is that there is no free lunch in leaving GITMO the way it is...

I can arrange a briefing so that I can share with you what the exact numbers are, because I don't know them.

One of the things that you can clearly do in an Article III court that you cannot so clearly do in a military commission is accept a guilty plea in a capital case.

Well, first and foremost, we focused on national security in deciding if a person could be released and where that person might be transferred.

Now, I realize that there are different views on how best to approach this work.

I think your suggestion is actually an interesting one about the possibility of dealing with those samples that come from private labs on which we get a hit and then retesting perhaps only those.

There were terrorism cases that were tried in Article III courts in the Bush Administration.

I don't think we can adopt a blanket policy of never trying a terrorist in a civilian court.

I think what I said on the day of the announcement is that the trials of these matters are not local trials.

Under the system that we have in place there have been cases where we have made the determination, with regard to detainees, that certain of them can be transferred, certain of them can be tried and certain of them can be held on a…

And maybe I was being a little flip with Mr. Culberson--you know, reading Miranda rights to his corpse, because I think that is what we are going to be dealing with.

Yes. We are determined to make real the Adam Walsh Act.

I have said that if Haley's Comet were to come flying through this hearing room today, and if something like that happened, it would not be the intention of this Administration to release him into the United States.

I think people often times think of DNA as only the thing that springs people who were unjustly accused of a crime, and it certainly has had that impact, but it is also a very, very important law enforcement tool that convicts people who…

They are tested. We have tried a number of these cases in Article III courts; they are secure.

We have put together a financial fraud enforcement task force that marries a group of federal executive branch agencies with our state and local counterparts, chiefly attorneys general.

I said that murderers have the same rights as Charles Manson, and if these people are charged with murder, in essence, those are the kinds of rights that they would get.

I think that the decision was correct.

That is not clear at this point that the United States has the ability to, as the President tried to do in that case, hold incommunicado and without a lawyer an American citizen on American soil.

I think we have made some substantial progress when it comes to what our immigration judges are doing.

I think it was interesting that their view was that he came out of that procedure a different person.