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Wendy Sherman: I suggest if we catch a bomber, we arrest him. He suggests a doctrine in which anyone could be called an enemy combatant…

On the recordJuly 8, 2004
I suggest if we catch a bomber, we arrest him. He suggests a doctrine in which anyone could be called an enemy combatant for doing whatever the administration thinks is harmful to the United States and incarcerated forever, and that the only alternative is to release all terrorists to swim amongst us. What a preposterous alternative. What an attempt to put in the hands of the executive branch the right to arrest anyone and permanently detain them and to say that the only alternative is to release Mohammad Atta.
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Wendy Sherman
Democratic · District of Columbia

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Debating the implications of designating individuals as enemy combatants.

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