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Lindsey Graham: I want the world to understand that America is not a bad place because we will hold al Qaeda members under a process…

On the recordMay 7, 2009
I want the world to understand that America is not a bad place because we will hold al Qaeda members under a process that is fair, transparent, until they die.
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

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Graham defends the detention of al Qaeda members as fair and necessary.

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