"Today the Subcommittee examines the military commission system and, more importantly, how we as a Nation can work together productively to clean up the terrible legacy of the Bush administration's detention policies in a manner that provides us with a legitimate legal framework going forward."
"I think that view of the applicability of the Constitution does not survive the Boumediene decision."
"The gentleman will suspend. If the gentleman wants to comment, I will grant him a minute to comment."
"I would point out that the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2008 said, with regard to the Uyghurs, or with regard to one of them at least, quote. 'It is u..."
"In other words, we're going to divide the prisoners into different classifications."
"I don't believe it does, because I believe that detention on the basis of dangerousness alone is unconstitutional."
"What process is necessary to determine whether someone is or is not, in fact, a combatant?"
"The President does not have the authority to detain people on the basis of dangerousness."
"The Supreme Court has never authorized a statute of that nature, and I think would be contrary to due process and most of the values that the United States stands for."
"Are we giving it that process, or are current processes adequate to that?"
"The government simply cannot be allowed to hide behind unexamined claims of secrecy and become the final arbiter of its own conduct."