Political Quotes

“my hope is, as Senator Levin indicated, we are all doing this because we believe Congress has a role in this war. The executive branch has the job to lay the battle plans in place and to go after the enemy and be the Commander in Chief. But the Congress regulates captives of land and sea. The Congress is involved in issues about the detention, interrogation, and prosecution of enemy combatants and those who are trying to do harm to the country. My goal over the last week was to do two things: get the Congress involved and for us to start thinking, what do we want, as a nation, to happen in this war now and down the road? What do we want to happen to the Sheik Mohammeds and people such as he? Do we want them to be common criminals? No. We want them to be people considered under the law of armed conflict. My amendment last week was a direct result of what I think was a growing problem for our country. Section 2241 habeas rights were being exercised by noncitizen, foreign terrorist suspects to the point they were flooding our courts. They were bringing lawsuits. I will give you an example. One Canadian detainee, who threw a grenade that killed an Army medic in a firefight and who comes from a family with longstanding al-Qaida ties, moved for a preliminary injunction forbidding the interrogation of him or engaging in ``cruel, inhuman, or degrading'' treatment of him.…”