Lindsey Graham

Some of our allies refuse to turn prisoners over to us if they believe they could work their way to Guantanamo.

Would you support sending Guantanamo Bay detainees to Afghanistan, to Bagram? Is that a good idea?

We're running out of jail space for certain people, and we need to find confinement facilities that work.

I just want to make sure that we're here to deliver for them, and that's why your testimony is so helpful.

Is there a strategy to deal with allowing people to retire early, but incentivizing them to stay from 20 to 30, based on the needs of the military?

We write to express our deep concern about reports that the administration is planning to transfer six Yemeni nationals currently being held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the custody of the government of Yemen. We request an immediate halt…

One of the reasons they've been able to seize power and influence is they can provide services the Afghan Government is unable to provide.

So in the next 18 months, to roll them back we're going to put combat power in that we've never had, right?

I believe it would be a 9 or 10, not just because I believe al Qaeda would move back in, but also because I believe regional instability as it would spill over into Pakistan and other areas would be absolutely negative to our interests.

But, I can't understand letting Afghanistan go back into the abyss again. That's my dilemma.

It is sad. It would have been sad to have lost in Iraq. It would have been devastating.

This is the last best chance America has to get it right in Afghanistan.

I believe that it is.

What I am afraid of is the war on terror has become a police action, and I think that undermines our National security.

I totally agree with you, and, you know, obviously we parted ways on some of this, but these are not easy decisions.

Now, from the protocols that we would institute from the military side, what would you recommend that our military commanders, intelligence officials do at the point of capture?

I just think when you are at war and the people you have in your capture the commander-in-chief has determined through a rational process are part of the enemy force or may go back to the fight, that America is not a better place for…

Yes. There are speedy trial rights, which--

This is an important point here that, you know, the idea of preventive detention, I do not think Senator Feingold is high on that idea.

Right. And under military law, you can hold somebody without any expectation of trial if they are, in fact, part of the enemy force.

If we go down that road, we are going to make this country less safe.

With all due respect, every military lawyer that I have talked to is deeply concerned about the fact that if we go down this road, we are criminalizing the war, and we are putting our intelligence gathering at risk.

I am here to tell you that I am sure he will get convicted in Federal court, but not because we are threatening the judge or the jury, but just because of the nature of the case.

But under domestic criminal law, the moment the person is in the hands of the U.S. Government, they are entitled to be told they have a right to a lawyer and can remain silent.

We are making history here, Mr. Attorney General. I will answer it for you. The answer is no.