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Lindsey Graham: “Nothing could be further from the truth. Everyone captured in the United States held as an enemy combatant has a habeas…”

On the recordFebruary 28, 2012
Nothing could be further from the truth. Everyone captured in the United States held as an enemy combatant has a habeas right to appear before a judge.
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Graham defends the habeas rights of enemy combatants captured in the U.S.

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