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Lindsey Graham: “We have held several American citizens for a multiple period of years as enemy combatants: Hamdi v. Rumsfeld.”

On the recordJanuary 27, 2015
We have held several American citizens for a multiple period of years as enemy combatants: Hamdi v. Rumsfeld.
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Graham cites a legal precedent for holding American citizens as enemy combatants.

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