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Kit Bond: “Many commentators and I have agreed that treating this person as a common United States criminal when he was clearly an…”

On the recordFebruary 1, 2010
Many commentators and I have agreed that treating this person as a common United States criminal when he was clearly an enemy combatant--I don't know how much more clearly you can be an enemy combatant, like the German saboteurs who arrived in the United States in the early 1940s.
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Kit Bond
Republican · Missouri

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Bond argues against treating enemy combatants as common criminals.

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