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Jeff Sessions: “But if you hold them in a military commission, they do not have to be given a lawyer, they do not have to be warned of…”

On the recordJune 14, 2010
But if you hold them in a military commission, they do not have to be given a lawyer, they do not have to be warned of rights, and they do not have to be even set for trial.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions discusses the lack of rights for detainees in military commissions.

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