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On the recordFebruary 4, 2015
This confusion must end. Our Armed Forces deserve a comprehensive detention strategy that allows them to fight this metastasizing, global, and brutal enemy without their eyes closed.
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Jack Reed
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Reed called for a clear detention strategy for the military.

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