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House Proceeding 11-16-09 on Nov 16th, 2009 :: 2:06:45 to 2:08:15
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Michael T. McCaul

2:06:42 to 2:07:03( Edit History Discussion )

Michael T. McCaul: there is a war using terror goingen and we either fight it or we'll be overwhelmed by it. so we should be in it. mr. mccaul: my point is that that language has been taken out of the vernacular by this administration for whatever reason. we have our points as to why. but this is not being viewed as

Michael T. McCaul

2:06:45 to 2:08:15( Edit History Discussion )
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Michael T. McCaul

2:07:04 to 2:07:24( Edit History Discussion )

Michael T. McCaul: a war. what happened by the decision to bring in the mastermind of 9/11 to the very city where 3,000 americans were murdered, basically is a signal by this adnistration that the war on terror is over. that we are no longer going to treat this terrorist as enemies of war, but rather we're going to go back to the clinton

Michael T. McCaul

2:07:25 to 2:07:45( Edit History Discussion )

Michael T. McCaul: administration years where we're going to treat them as criminal defendants. like randy yusef, 1993 world trade center bomber. not an act of war but is he a criminal defendant. by the way, he did not get the death penalty. he went and talked to his khalid sheik muhammad, about flying planes into buildings and

Michael T. McCaul

2:07:46 to 2:08:07( Edit History Discussion )

Michael T. McCaul: look what happened. moussaoui did not get the death penalty because a lot of evidence was held to be inadmissible in a federal court. if they're true enemies of war, the best venue to try them, is as we did in world war ii, but military tribunals. and the rules of evidence as you

Michael T. McCaul

2:08:08 to 2:08:15( Edit History Discussion )

Michael T. McCaul: know, judge, i was a prosecutor in the -- -- the federal justice department, the fact is, is you bring them on american soil, give them all

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