Political Quotes

“I will be glad to get a letter from the prosecutor at the military commission about the procedures. I will bet $100 he will say they are great. The point is, we are talking about two different things. My amendment is designed to get us back to what we have been doing for a couple hundred years. What I am concerned about is that an enemy prisoner, not someone charged with a crime, is having access to Federal courts to sue our own troops about the food, about the mail, about whether they should have Internet access, about whether they should get DVDs. There are 160 lawsuits now in Federal court suing to stop interrogations unless a Federal judge oversees the interrogation. Never in the history of the law of armed conflict has a military prisoner, an enemy combatant, been granted access to any court system, Federal or otherwise, to have a Federal judge come in and start running the prison and determining what is in bounds and what is out. The military is the proper body to determine who an enemy combatant is and how to run a war and how to interrogate people, not Federal judges who are not trained in the art of military science. Here is what these lawsuits are about. Here is why I am so adamant that we stop it. No. 1, what are we stopping? We are not stopping a constitutional right that exists under our law for an enemy prisoner in our hands to be able to question their detention through Federal court action.…”