Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani lashed out at the Obama
administration Sunday, saying they sent the message that "the war on
terror is over" with the decision to try 9/11 terrorism suspects in
civilian court.
"We generally don't bring people back to the scene of the crime for justice," Giuliani, who was mayor at the time of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, said on "Fox News Sunday." "We didn't do that in our other wars."
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The onetime presidential hopeful said that the White House should opt for a tribunal system that had been honed over the years to be "constitutionally permissible," whereas the decision to try professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others in New York federal court was a "better choice for the terrorists."
"This seems to be an over-concern with the rights of the terrorists and a lack of concern for the rights of the public," Giuliani said.
"I think they think that somehow this is going to increase our reputation overseas."
But also on "Fox News Sunday," Sen. Jack Reed

"The court has determined they deserve some constitutional protections," Reed said.
Reed, a veteran who sits on the Armed Services Committee, said that trying Mohammed in a military tribunal would only have enforced his "image of soldier" in the Islamic world.
"The up side is that you are vindicting this country's basic values," Reed said.
"This is an opportunity to show that we're better than they are."
The senator also brushed off concerns about acquitted suspects being released. "That is highly unlikely," he said. "As long as these individuals pose a threat they can be detained and they will."
Giuliani also accused the Obama administration of delaying a decision on strategy forward in Afghanistan for political reasons, and of downplaying the Islamic extremist angle on the Fort Hood shootings.
"This whole thing with Major Hasan is another indication that [Obama] doesn't get it," Giuliani said. "He doesn't get the fact that there is an Islamic war against us. Not so hard to figure out that this was yet another Islamic terrorist attack on American soil."
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