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Lindsey Graham: “The law is well settled here, that a United States citizen in other wars have been held as enemy combatants when the…”

On the recordJanuary 9, 2017
The law is well settled here, that a United States citizen in other wars have been held as enemy combatants when the evidence suggests they collaborated with the enemy.
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

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Graham discusses the legal status of U.S. citizens as enemy combatants.

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