Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is expected in a federal court in Detroit today to face charges over the attempted Christmas Day bombing of Northwest flight 253.
The former NYC mayor says the suspect should be tried as an enemy combatant.
The arraignment comes a day after President Obama scolded his national security team for not recognizing warning signs that Abdulmutallab was a threat. The administration also released a declassified version of how the near disaster occurred.
The suspect's pending arraignment triggered a fresh debate over whether Abdulmutallab and other accused terrorists should be tried in America's civil courts with rights to lawyers and other civil protections, or whether they should be relegated to military tribunals.
Outside the confines of Obama's bizarro world, this is an easy question.
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