district of new york. he was picked up according to u.s. officials in the gulf of aiden and held on a navy vessel for two months, interrogated there before read his miranda rights. late this afternoon, 42 senators, republican senators sent a letter to eric holder the attorney general there you see it. saying we urge you to reconsider the policy of brings terrorist to the homeland for prosecution. they asked that you provide congress an estimate of the added expence to be incured by the local police to protect the court involved. bring in the panel about this. steve hayes, for stand stand. a.b. stoddard, associate editor of the hill. syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. we foreshadowed this in questioning, steve, monday by senator lindsey graham. he was asking about detention policy. then we got word it was happening. in a couple of weeks ago, you had admiral mcgraveen in front of the senated a about the detention policy broadly and he said in effect there is
will be tried in southern district of new york. he was picked up according to u.s. officials in the gulf of aiden and held on a navy vessel for two months, interrogated there before read his miranda rights. late this afternoon, 42 senators, republican senators sent a letter to eric holder the attorney general there you see it. saying we urge you to reconsider the policy of brings terrorist to the homeland for prosecution. they asked that you provide congress an estimate of the added expence to be incured by the local police to protect the court involved. bring in the panel about this. steve hayes, for stand stand. a.b. stoddard, associate editor of the hill. syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. we foreshadowed this in questioning, steve, monday by senator lindsey graham. he was asking about detention policy. then we got word it was happening. in a couple of weeks ago, you had admiral mcgraveen in front of the senated a about the detention policy broadly
that is where bush was six years ago. we re 10 years into this war and we don t have rules to protect this nation against terrorism. we ll introduce those rules with senator mccain today. i m sad to say it has taken us 10 years to get here. jon: and, general reaction that you ve heard from other senators? about time. i don t think many senators want to give khalid sheikh mohammed a trial in new york city that would cost hundreds of millions of dollars, give him a platform to spew his hate and criminalize the war. i don t think many senators want to read miranda rights to people who tried to blow up an airplane. i don t think many senators want to let people in guantanamo bay go back to yemen, somalia or pakistan. i think we ll do very well with our legislation. i wish the administration would have happened helped us. i ve been trying to work for year-and-a-half with these folks to come up with a rational detention policy. we haven t gotten there so we ll do it on our own in congress.
really take some of these people out that are the ones that are the real organizers? dude, if i that had answer to that, i wouldn t be sitting at georgetown. i would be writing a book censored by the cia. petraeus had inherited an understanding that afghanistan s prisens are the most effective place where insurgents get to meet trade secrets. we have to think about our detention policy. everyone thinks about gitmo, but forgets about bag rahm. remember, some of these fellows were wrapped up in the early operations following september 11th. some may have been irrelevant
the bigger argument of the report is that in many, many areas, what you see when you step back from the individual decisions that the administration has made, what you see is an entrenchment of a pattern that was started under the bush administration. so what are those areas? where are they most egregious where you see this entrenchment? the places we identify, we point to the indefinite detention policy. when you say that, just to be clear, endorsement briefs filed by the president. that s right. the obama administration has abandoned the rhetoric of the global war on terror. but it has not abandoned the arguments that were underneath that rhetoric. and that s true when it comes to indefinite detention. if you look at the arguments the administration has made in court, they re making the same statutory arguments that the bush administration was making in its last days in august.