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Lindsey Graham: “My point to my colleagues--and I enjoyed this discussion--is that if you take the ability to hold someone as an enemy…”

On the recordNovember 30, 2011
My point to my colleagues--and I enjoyed this discussion--is that if you take the ability to hold someone as an enemy combatant off the table, you cannot interrogate them for intelligence- gathering purposes, and if you put a time limit on how long you can hold them, you defeat the purpose of gathering intelligence. Does the Senator agree with that?
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina
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Nov 30, 2011

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