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Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Sunday she “regrets” discussions on whether the surviving Boston bombing suspect should be interrogated as a potential enemy combatant. The California Democrat told “Fox News Sunday” the Obama administration’s High Value Interrogation Group will interview suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, he will be read his Miranda rights at a later date and federal courts, not a military commission, can handle the case. "I really regret all of this discussion, which is creating a conflict that need not be there,” she said. “The administration is ready. … I don’t think all of this is very helpful.” Two bombs placed...

When it comes to trying terrorists on American soil since 9/11, let's all work from the same set of facts. This morning we've heard three people in the Sunday shows talking about the "hundreds" of terrorists that we have tried in US courts and hold in US prisons - as if KSM was just some regular Joe terrorist. Some facts: First, the only civilian trial of a 9/11 terrorist was Moussaoui who was arrested before 9/11 had even happened and before the President had authorized detaining terrorists as enemy combatants. Second, Moussaoui had his trial while the entire military commission...

Marine Lt. Pantano Self Defense or Murder in Iraq? has been dogged not only by Islamic terrorists, but also by fellow military social engineers/lawyers, including a former Air Force lawya, Scott Silliman, whose name has been prophetic. According to Michael Savage, the Ethicist-Internationalist Silliman has been rewarded for his one world views (read pro U.N., pro Europe, pro anything-but-America) by being hired by one of the Poison Ivy League's worse - Duke University. I just had to send a fax to the former airman who has had much more sympathy for America's enemies than our own troops. Pray for Silliman...

Cover Story 12/16/02 Unequal justice Military courts are stacked to convict–but not the brass. The Pentagon insists everything's just fine BY EDWARD T. POUND "The purpose of military law is to promote justice, to assist in maintaining good order and discipline in the armed forces, to promote efficiency and effectiveness in the military establishment, and thereby to strengthen the national security of the United States.'' –The preamble to the U.S. Manual for Courts-Martial