Ben Cardin actually said...

"if we do not put sunlight on it, if we do not open this process up, if we do not engage the international community, and if we do not engage the international community on how we are going to deal wit..."

"Let me just repeat the 9/11 Commission's recommendation that the United States engage its friends and develop a common coalition approach toward detention and humane treatment of captured terrorists."

"Guantanamo Bay has to close."

"I would just urge you--this is an issue that is difficult for us to defend when we do not have anything to defend, we do not have a policy to defend."