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Jeff Sessions: “I think the idea that a captured combatant who, if eligible to be tried because they have committed violations of the…”

On the recordNovember 17, 2009
I think the idea that a captured combatant who, if eligible to be tried because they have committed violations of the laws of war, would be tried in military commissions is only common sense and part of our history.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions argues for military commissions for captured combatants based on historical precedent.

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