detainees. i think it shows i don t mow that they will but they are struggling with the guantanamo bay policy. which is to abandon that facility clearly. what i think this case shows is that they are thinking their position on miranda rights and the protection of suspects has evolved. they did not want to offer the right to attorney or anything as quickly as they have in the past. they spent time with the suspect. they re arguing that a military commission will be more challengin challenging in s instance because the suspect is not charged with specific attack. the charges are less. so the argument is zillian court is a place to more successfully this type of suspect. bret: this has evolved. it s bounced back and forth. many people on capitol hill say where are we? the one thing that constant is the administration, aversion to guantanamo and to any use of it.
i don t see it struggling over the guantanamo issue. it s against it in the testimony that mcgraven had given on june 28 that steve alluded to, he said there were many cases like the case of this somali. meaning terrorists caution, brought on ship and they have a policy. either you go to america and get a civilian trial in this case or you are released to a friendly country or in to the world so you can attack america again. now what is interesting is mark gleasson from the washington post, so mall hi we are talk about is the only guy who has been brought to the united states for trial. as a result of this. which means many cases, every other of the many cases has been released. either to a third of country o
seeing some images of gitmo. you ve been there quite a few times. i mean, you ve sat in court with these co-conspirators. tell us more about that experience and having done that what you expect to see now. reporter: well, the military court at guantanamo bay was custom built for the 9/11 trial itself, and on the left-hand side of the courtroom there are five defense tables, one for each one off the conspirators. it s a fairly intimate court. the 9/11 suspects are separated from the reporters and the family members by reinforced glass. what i think is going to be key here is when the case finally goes ahead whether the 9/11 conspirators will show their intent to plead guilty. they ve tried to do this on at least one other occasion, but that was held up went khalid khd sheikh mohammed learned from the judge it wasn t automatic death sentence within the military commissions. and if i can just tell you one story which i think sums up the type of people they are, at one of their last mili
congress blocked transfer of the guantanamo bay detainees to criminal court. they have moved unilaterally and done an end-run around the administration. congress is now mad. they will say you fooled us once, fine. you won t do it again. a slap in the face of the legislative bodies who are trying to work with the administration on crafting detainment framework for high value detainees outside of afghanistan. according to the indictment, the somali suspect has ties to the al-qaeda affiliate in yemen. the same group was behind the underwear bomber christmas day of 2009. they tell us terrorists may implant explosives in their body to circumvent security. it sent a warning to brief overseas security agencies and the u.s. officials say the threat is not imminent. they describe intelligence as credible. bret: more on this with the panel. thank you. increased communication and cooperation between iraq and