Lindsey Graham: “I was under the assumption the amendment was going to be accepted, as you were, and now I have been told there are some…”

“I was under the assumption the amendment was going to be accepted, as you were, and now I have been told there are some concerns from the minority on the committee. I have talked extensively about these series of amendments. They all work in conjunction with each other. Senator McCain's amendment standardized interrogation techniques and what we as a people want to live by--we do not want to torture people. We are not going to torture people. My amendment standardizes and makes small changes to the determination of who is an enemy combatant and who is not, because you keep people at Guantanamo Bay indefinitely under this procedure. It needs to be blessed by Congress. The third thing we do, later on, is deal with military commissions, actually how you try these people. So I was under the understanding, I say to the Senator, that not only was Senator Warner a cosponsor of these two amendments, but that everybody was on board. The point here is to give the courts some guidance to bring about legal certainty where there is a legal mass, as Senator McCain indicated. So I don't know why anybody is objecting. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alaska.”