Harrison Township, MI - U.S. Representative Candice Miller (MI-10), a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, today released the following statement concerning the December 25th attempted terrorist act aboard an international flight landing in Detroit, MI. The Committee is charged with oversight over the Department of Homeland Security, and will hold a hearing in January 2010 to review this attempted terrorism act and what modified security measures need to be put in place to prevent incidents such as what happened aboard this flight.

Representative Miller said:

“As a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security I look forward to the hearing on this terrorist attack as soon as the Congress reconvenes in early January. We obviously need a much more comprehensive security plan to continue to improve our nation’s security measures. The 9-11 Commission told us that we needed to move away from the ‘need to know information’ to ‘the need to share information’ among all effected agencies, and this attack provides further proof that we need to improve on this critical aspect for protecting American citizens from future terrorist attacks.

“Additionally, I call for this cowardly terrorist to be turned over to the military for immediate interrogation to the fullest extent that this Administration will condone. We need to get whatever information from him as soon as possible. The fact that he is being treated like a common criminal, given a taxpayer-funded attorney, taken to the University of Michigan Burn Center where his attorney is suggesting he may need expensive skin grafts for his self inflicted burns is crazy.
He is not a criminal; he is an enemy combatant at war with the United States of America.

“Lastly, I hope this terrorist attack will help stop President Obama’s dangerous plan to close Guantanamo Bay and move the detainees to the United States.”

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