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Jim Inhofe: today the Guantanamo detainees are held under well-established laws of war permitting belligerents to confine captured…

On the recordJuly 6, 2009
today the Guantanamo detainees are held under well-established laws of war permitting belligerents to confine captured enemies until hostilities are over.
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Jim Inhofe
Republican · Oklahoma

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Inhofe discusses the legal framework for detaining Guantanamo detainees.

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