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York city terrorist to guantanamo but statistically that process takes much longer than going through the federal system. should move fast. death penalty, exclamation point. we re learning new details about that suspect accused of killing eight people on a new york city bike path on halloween. the 29-year-old made his first court appearance yesterday and according to a criminal complaint, he told investigators he felt good about the attack and picked halloween so there would be more people on streets. nbc s justice correspondent pete williams join us with the very latest. the big question now is were other people involved. it doesn t like somebody who does this sort of thing needs help. this would not have been an expensive or difficult technical thing to carry out. so the question is, was anybody aware of it and did it raise their hand and try to stop it? was anybody egging him on? was he in touch with terrorists overseas or terror groups? ....
Seemed to be getting his information from fox news. it s not just that he is speaking to those people, it goes two ways. it really seems like he wants to know what happened in lower manhattan yesterday, he s clicking on fox & friends and that s the source of the information of the president of the united states. certainly it was fox & friends that was the source apparently of this information and even if you say that he s the president, he has access to classified material, he is then choosing, as we have seen before, to disseminate this on twitter, without much thought for the ramifications or the fact that u.s. authorities haven t actually weighed in. just one quick thing rick hit upon the fact that this is really about triggering pressure points within his base. and i think that even the fact that he would mention the prospect of sending this individual to guantanamo, that s rooted in him knowing that that is really something that in the eyes of the base projects this aura of toug ....
Arraigned. now starting seventh year of pretrial proceedings in this guy s case. so far the pretrial proceedings appear to include hunting down and forcing civilian lawyers to defense defend him who have quit the case to the point where may be jailed tonight and number two ranking lawyer in marine corps is jailed. and defendant has no idea any of this is going on, what any of it means and what it s about and lawyers won t speak to him because they believe they can t without violating their ethics. case is going great. today the president called the u.s. federal judicial system quote a joke. said it was laughing stock. instead would like to send the suspect from the attack in new york yesterday to guantanamo. today said send him to guantanamo, i would certainly ....
Was part of the broad are al qaeda setup before being detained in pakistan ant sent to guantanamo. phil mud, what do you think? this level of recidivism as has been called prisoner released they go back and commit terror acts. i would sigh level of recidivism is high. the significant here is pretty straightforward. you have two guys who would be considered in mob terms made men. they re trusted not only by the sh given the flow of foreign fighters into places like syria and iraq the damage could have been significant. we re talking about thousands of people from going from europe into syria. these guys will have contacts going back years, bob bahr the president would like to shut down gitmo once and for all. i assume he d like to see thor prisoners sent back to other countries, whether their own countries or other countries ....
That day, i said we are not closing the sites. this program continues. it continues under different conditions. the number of detainees now is zero. this could be detainees in the future. and in fact, wolf, quite different from the highly charged secretiveness early in the program, we had two detainees while i was director, and we announced them both as they moved out of the black so it and we pushed them on to guantanamo. was there anything illegal going on based on what we know as a result of this report? i m sorry, the anything illegal that u.s. officials, whether cia officials, contractors, military personnel, what was illegal as far as you could tell? sure. there were several things that were illegal. particularly early in the program that the agency self-reported and were investigated not once but twice by u.s. attorneys. an awful lot of the things going on as news here were things that the agency knew about already ....