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On the recordNovember 30, 2011
I read this yesterday, and I will read it again now. The Senator is right. I don't know how anybody reading this can reach any other conclusion but what the Supreme Court says, not because they are right or wrong but because of the Supreme Court: ``There is no bar to this Nation's holding one of its own citizens as an enemy combatant.'' By the way, nor should there be, in my judgment.
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Mike Levin
Democratic · California

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