Political Quotes

“May I answer that? I say to the Senator, with all due respect, that is dead wrong. Military commissions that will be trying the people designated by the President, subject to be tried at Guantanamo Bay for violation of the law of armed conflict, do get appeals. They get more appeal rights than the people who were tried as German saboteurs under military commissions. They get a lawyer. They get the right to confront witnesses against them. They get the right to call witnesses. The military commissions are different than the CSRTs. There is a process in the military commissions for people to have every right under the Geneva Conventions and then some, to have more rights than the German saboteurs. The German saboteurs did not have habeas corpus rights. They had an appeal right within the military commission system, as the al-Qaida members do. To say that you can be tried at Guantanamo Bay for a war crime and not have an appeal is not true. It is like we did with the saboteurs. To say that people at Guantanamo Bay should have habeas corpus rights is doing something no one has ever had in the law of armed conflict, Nazi or otherwise.”