**UPDATE: Audio fixed.
Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Former federal judge and United States Attorney General, Michael Mukasey joins Frank to discuss the lawsuit designed to protect American jihadist-terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki. Proponents of this suit say that because al-Awlaki is an American citizen, he should be protected from possible attempts to capture or kill him. Christmas Day bomber Abdulmullatab, Fort Hood terrorist shooter Nidal Malik Hassan and the attempted Time Square bomber Faisel Shahzad are all linked to al-Awlaki in some way.
When asked of this case, Michael Mukasey stated, “Well, that lawsuit, if that’s what its going to be, doesn’t really pass the laugh test.” He then compared the al-Awlaki question to the 1942 Supreme Court ruling Ex parte Quirin, which in effect ruled that, “[his] status as a United States citizen is irrelevant. Once he chose to take up arms against his country, and throw in his lot with the Germans, he forfeited any right that he had as a US Citizen. So the claim that because al-Awlaki is a US citizen, that we have to have a trial in absentia or some other fashion so we can put him on a list that he can be hit by a drone, is ridiculous.”
Listen to the rest of the conversation here: [audio: http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/upload/wysiwyg/media/G08092010_Seg%204_Michael%20Mukasey_10.05%20min.mp3]