By reading Miranda rights to suspected terrorists at military detention facilities in Afghanistan, the United States could be accelerating a shift from a war against terrorists to a courtroom battle against criminal defendants, Republicans and terrorism analysts warn. 

The Department of Justice acknowledged Wednesday that FBI agents have read terrorist suspects their rights overseas, at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan and other places

"We don't want our soldiers thinking, is this a law enforcement event or is this a combat event," Rep. Mike Rogers

However, a senior Republican on the House Intelligence Committee who just returned from Afghanistan and Bagram said the practice is causing chaos, confusion and frustration in the field.

"It's shocking to believe that we're going to give non-United States citizens in combat zones who are training, equipping and planning to kill United States citizens and our military and treat them as if they're U.S. citizens and afford them those rights."