Joseph Lieberman actually said...

"I think the committee has made the right judgment in saying that the right of appeal from the military commissions should be to the CAAF and that there shouldn't be an appeal to the Circuit Court for ..."

"I agree that we hold ourselves to very high standards, sometimes standards that are so high that they are unrealistic and in some sense self-destructive in the context of the war we're in."

"I agree with you that what we've provided for in this legislation of this committee is well within the Geneva Conventions."

"I think, based on what you've just said, essentially the effect of it is to give these war criminals... the greater legal protections of the Federal courts."