bush administration in criminal court in article 3 courts beginning with richard reed, going to omar abu ali, zacarias moussaoui, nabazul nabazulla zazi charged as well as padilla, lynn, the lakawana 6 and so on and so forth and put these on the record. the point is that a president should have flexibility to cite the venue for trial. all i can say is those of us on this side of the aisle did not criticize president bush for doing this at this time and we view with some suspicion the fact that president obama is being criticized for following policy that had been established since 9/11. >> madam chair, i will add the names of the people, the information released as a result of these trials where we held the trials. and i will discuss further disagree with your characterization. thank you. >> senator whitehouse? >> madam chair, i have not been here 34 years. i have been here only three years, but i find it extremely discouraging that with these gentlemen before us, the head of the defense intelligence agency, the head of the fbi, the director of national intelligence, head of the central inte

bush administration in criminal court in article 3 courts beginning with richard reed, going to omar abu aliaoui, nabazul nabazulla zazi charged as well as padilla, lynn, the lakawana 6 and so on and so forth and put these on the record. the point is that a president should have flexibility to cite the venue for trial. all i can say is those of us on this side of the aisle did not criticize president bush for doing this at this time and we view with some suspicion the fact that president obama is being criticized for following policy that had been established since 9/11. >> madam chair, i will add the names of the people, the information released as a result of these trials where we held the trials. and i will discuss further disagree with your characterization. thank you. >> senator whitehouse? >> madam chair, i have not been here 34 years. i have been here only three years, but i find it extremely discouraging that with these gentlemen before us, the head of the defense intelligence agency, the head of the fbi, the director of national intelligence, head of the central intelligence agency