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On the recordJune 30, 2010
Unfortunately the Graham Amendment would prohibit challenges to detention practices, treatment of prisoners, adjudications of their guilt and their punishment.
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Jon Kyl
Republican · Arizona

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Kyl criticized the Graham Amendment's limitations on detainee rights.

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