Political Quotes

On the recordJuly 6, 2009
In the military setting, is it a permissible behavior of a country to hold someone under the theory that they're a belligerent enemy combatant indefinitely if the evidence justifies that finding?
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Graham questions the legality of indefinite detention of combatants.

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