Political Quotes

“Let me start with my good friend from Colorado. I respect the Senator; I know his concerns. I don't agree. I can remember being told by the Bush administration: We don't need the Detainee Treatment Act. Everybody said we didn't need it, but they were wrong. I remember being told by the Vice President's office during the Bush administration: It is OK to take classified evidence, show it to the jury, the finder of fact, and not share it with the accused, but you can share it with his lawyer. How would you like an American soldier tried in a foreign land, where they are sitting there in the chair wondering what the jury is talking about and can't even comment to their own lawyer about the allegations against them? I have been down this road with administrations and we worked in a bipartisan fashion to change some things the Bush administration wanted to do and I am glad we did it. We are working in a bipartisan fashion to change some things this administration is doing, and I hope we are successful, because if we fail, we are all going to be worse for it. Here are the facts: Under this provision of mandatory military custody, for someone captured in the United States, if they are an American citizen, that provision does not apply to them. But here is the law of the land right now: If they are an American citizen suspected of joining al-Qaida, being a member of al-Qaida, they can be held as an enemy combatant.…”