This location issue is very important because of the politics of this, for lack of a better word.
To the Guard force families who may be listening, what your loved one goes through every day at Guantanamo Bay is a real sacrifice.
In the military setting, is it a permissible behavior of a country to hold someone under the theory that they're a belligerent enemy combata...
It would be the biggest mistake this country could make, to use the criminal model, but yet still hold people indefinitely without trial.
We believe the Levin-McCain-Graham amendment to section 1031 of the NDAA addresses this problem by authorizing protective orders in this con...
I think the extra process that we're providing these detainees will confer a legitimacy to the trials.
I want to make sure we preserve that.
I think it would help the country if we could reform the process and I think we're very close to a bill that we all can be proud of.
No one will be imprisoned in this country based on a military commission verdict that does not have a chance to have their day in Federal co...
We need to look as a Nation about creating uniformity to these habeas rights.
I'd like to know how location would matter.
If you compare our military commissions system... we're much more... liberal in terms of providing due process.
I think our hearsay rules are much more restrictive, quite frankly.
The courts will look at these trials in terms of due process.
Either the evidence is not the type you would take to a beyond a reasonable doubt trial or it has some national security implications.
I think we'll find some common ground here about the evidentiary standard as far as a statement goes.
Maybe being the odd guy out as a Republican, I believe that also, simply because Generals Petraeus, Odierno, and every other combat commande...
I just can't believe, quite frankly, given the Supreme Court cases, that if you close Guantanamo Bay, move the detainees within the United S...
