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On the recordJuly 6, 2009
It would be the biggest mistake this country could make, to use the criminal model, but yet still hold people indefinitely without trial.
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

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Graham warns against indefinite detention without trial under a criminal model.

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