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On the recordDecember 1, 2011
Wouldn't it be kind of hard to explain to our constituents that our top lawyers in the Pentagon and CIA said today that once an American citizen decides to help al-Qaida they can be killed in a drone attack, but the Congress somehow says, OK, but they can't be detained?
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

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