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Susan Collins: “There is, in fact, precedent for detaining someone on American soil as an enemy combatant in the military system, and…”

On the recordJanuary 19, 2010
There is, in fact, precedent for detaining someone on American soil as an enemy combatant in the military system, and that is Jose Padilla.
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Susan Collins
Republican · Maine

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Collins discusses the precedent of detaining enemy combatants on U.S. soil.

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