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Jerry Nadler: “We cannot have such a doctrine and yet also have indefinite detention, because that means detention to the end of time.”

On the recordJuly 29, 2009
We cannot have such a doctrine and yet also have indefinite detention, because that means detention to the end of time.
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Jerry Nadler
Democratic · New York

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Nadler argues against indefinite detention linked to perpetual war doctrine.

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