The two top senators on the Senate Homeland Security Committee have written to Attorney General Eric Holder and White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to urge the Obama administration to treat Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab as an “unprivileged enemy belligerent” and transfer him to the Department of Defense.

Senators Collins and Lieberman write:

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