Jeff Sessions actually said...

"Without any doubt, we would be better treating them under the military commissions until we decide otherwise."

"It seems to me that it just makes common sense that the presumption would be that that individual would be held as a combatant."

"Why wouldn't we treat everybody we capture, at least initially, as a prisoner of war, as a combatant that meets the evidence of that?"

"That is consistent with our understanding of war."