CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte says the Obama administration is wrong to bring a recently captured son-in-law of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda spokesman to court in New York.

In a Washington news conference Thursday with fellow Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Ayotte said the Obama administration’s lack of a war-time detention policy for foreign members of al-Qaeda, as well as its refusal to detain and interrogate them at Guanatanmo Bay, makes our nation less safe.

Ayotte said military detention for enemy combatants has been the rule, not the exception.

She said a foreign member of al-Qaeda should never be treated like a common criminal and should never hear the words, “You have a right to remain silent.”

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