A member of Michigan's congressional delegation accused US Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday of treating the war on terrorism "like a simple police action" as the Obama administration came under more fire for treating the man accused of trying to blow up Flight 253 like a criminal with rights rather than an enemy combatant.

"I was stunned that this terrorist wasn't turned over to the military," said US Rep. Candice Miller (R-Mich.), a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, which held a hearing on the Dec. 25 incident at Detroit Metro Airport.

Officials from the Department of Homeland Security, the State Department and the National Counterterrorism Center testified, but Miller and others said they would also like to hear from Holder about how he made the decision to charge Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab criminally instead of continuing to interrogate him as a terrorism suspect with ties to a branch of al Qaeda.

Meanwhile, the committee's ranking Republican, Rep. Peter King of New York, criticized the administration for withholding information on the failed bombing attack from GOP members of the committee. He said President Barack Obama's point man on counterterrorism, John Brennan, wants "to control the intelligence community."

Obama and his national security and intelligence advisers have already taken the blame for mistakes that some say allowed Abdulmutallab to board the Detroit-bound plane with explosives, despite the fact his father had told US Embassy officials in Nigeria his son had traveled to Yemen and may have met with extremists.

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