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On the recordDecember 1, 2011
Would the Senator also agree with me that under the provision in the bill, on page 360--we were told that civilian trials are preferable to military trials, preferable to the detention of an unlawful combatant. Does the Senator agree that every one of those options is open to the executive branch and that there is no preference stated, one way or the other, for which approach is taken to people who are detained?
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Mike Levin
Democratic · California

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