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Eric Holder: “I think that's a generally accepted rule of war, that during the course of a conflict a person who's captured by the…”

On the recordJanuary 14, 2009
I think that's a generally accepted rule of war, that during the course of a conflict a person who's captured by the other side can be detained for the duration of that--of the conflict.
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Eric Holder
Democratic · District of Columbia

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Holder discusses the detention of enemy combatants during conflict.

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