Political Quotes

“I thank my friend. I absolutely agree. I talked to professionals in this business of interrogation, and they say some of the most effective interrogation takes time. I have had people describe to me detainees who were totally uncooperative, and they were asked over and over for days and weeks and months, and then finally broke and began to give information that was critically important for the protection of our country. So I do agree. I want to stress two things the Senator from South Carolina has said because it is very relevant to the attempt to give special status to Americans deemed to be enemy combatants in the contravention of existing U.S. Supreme Court rulings that say if you are an American and you are found to have joined the enemy, then you can be treated as an enemy combatant, which common sense tells you is what you are. Here is what I want to say, and this is important to what we are here for. There are two kinds of due process that are put into the bill, the underlying language and the compromise that has been adopted on the treatment of detainees. One, for the first time there is a judicial process to determine the status of the detainee, whether evidence shows that the detainee should, in fact, be treated as an enemy combatant. The second is that while the enemy combatant is subject to indefinite incarceration, that indefinite incarceration is subject to annual review now. So we can determine, according to a stated series of standards, whether that person----”