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Lindsey Graham: “I could not welcome that more. It worked with the Detainee Treatment Act, it worked with the Military Commissions Act. I…”

On the recordMarch 7, 2013
I could not welcome that more. It worked with the Detainee Treatment Act, it worked with the Military Commissions Act. I think it is the right way to go. Mr. McCAIN. Madam President, I think that concludes our discussion. I would agree with the Senator from Illinois and my colleague from South Carolina that we need hearings. We need to discuss how we conduct this--the United States, in what appears to be, for all intents and purposes, an interminable conflict that we are in and we have to adjust to it. But that conversation should not be talking about drones killing Jane Fonda and people in cafes. It should be all about what authority and what checks and balances should exist in order to make it a most effective ability to combat an enemy that we know will be with us for a long time.
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina
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Mar 7, 2013

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