Mike Levin: “I think that is true. It may or may not protect aliens, but it does protect American citizens. And the language on page…”

“I think that is true. It may or may not protect aliens, but it does protect American citizens. And the language on page 21 does not protect American citizens from seizures that are illegal. It says: Anything which is seized without a search warrant is allowable into these trials. It is not limited to material that is seized from aliens or material which is seized from enemy combatants. It says illegally obtained material can be admitted into this trial, period. We had such a restriction in the bill which came out of committee so that it was limited to evidence which was seized abroad, for instance. That would be fine because they may not have the fourth amendment that we do. But in the bill which is now before us, there is no such limitation. I will read the one sentence: Evidence shall not be excluded-- Shall not be excluded-- from trial by military commission on the grounds that the evidence was not seized pursuant to a search warrant or other authorization. In the substitute bill, that allowance of illegally seized evidence is limited to evidence which is not seized from American citizens here. So that distinction has been obliterated in the bill which is before us.”