Chuck Hagel: “Let me go, and not only did he go, he served with courage on the battlefield.”

This is really authoritarian.

Because I had the responsibility and I play my own game here. And that is because by law, I am the one official in government charged with certification with release of detainees. I take that responsibility very seriously.

It is hard to overstate how damaging the continued existence of the Detention Facility at Guantanamo has been and continues to be.

This is so unpredictable. And we've never seen anything quite like this in our lifetime, so there is no playbook here.