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On the recordDecember 1, 2011
yes. I would just qualify that statement this way. A person can be subject to military custody being a belligerent against the United States, even while being a U.S. citizen, be tried by military commission because of the act of war against the United States that they committed. One could also theoretically have been tried in a criminal court. But one can't reach the opposite conclusion, which is that they can only be tried in civilian court.
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Jon Kyl
Republican · Arizona
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Dec 1, 2011

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