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Lindsey Graham: It would be the biggest mistake this country could make, to use the criminal model, but yet still hold people…

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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