Barack Obama actually said...

We have not engaged in preventive detention without subjecting all of our actions to the laws of war.

Context

Background Briefing by Senior Administration Officials on the President's Speech on Counterterrorism

05/22/2013

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...

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