I want to make sure we preserve that.

I think our hearsay rules are much more restrictive, quite frankly.

Maybe being the odd guy out as a Republican, I believe that also, simply because Generals Petraeus, Odierno, and every other combat commander has said that being able to start over with detainee policy would take a tool off the table used…

If you compare our military commissions system... we're much more... liberal in terms of providing due process.

It doesn't bother me at all that all of our cases will go to civilian judges and the military and the Central Intelligence Agency has to prove to a civilian court that these people are dangerous and they're part of the enemy.

We need to look as a Nation about creating uniformity to these habeas rights.

In the military setting, is it a permissible behavior of a country to hold someone under the theory that they're a belligerent enemy combatant indefinitely if the evidence justifies that finding?

No one should be detained in America for an indefinite period of time that doesn't go to a civilian court or a military court without an independent judicial review.

It would be the biggest mistake this country could make, to use the criminal model, but yet still hold people indefinitely without trial.

The courts will look at these trials in terms of due process.

We're going to need something new.

We believe the Levin-McCain-Graham amendment to section 1031 of the NDAA addresses this problem by authorizing protective orders in this context.

I think it would help the country if we could reform the process and I think we're very close to a bill that we all can be proud of.

I'd like to know how location would matter.

I do not want Americans to be monitored as being suspected fifth column movement members of al Qaeda.

It has to be robust and it has to be transparent, and no one would be held based on an arbitrary decision by one group.

The people on the ground in different regions of the world indicate to me that Gitmo has hurt our effort to bring people over to our side, and starting over with detainee policy would probably be a good idea.

I think there will be a comprehensive proposal coming out from Senator McCain and myself.

I think it is very imperative that one of us act, the Congress or the administration.

I would urge you to get with us soon. Will you do that?

I prefer the military commission system.

In every war detainee policy becomes very important. It can hurt the war effort or it can help the war effort.

I would encourage you to go because I think beyond Guantanamo Bay detainees, there is a group within Bagram Air Base that are foreign fighters.

I am amazed. We are 8 years into this war, basically, since 9/11.

Every person who commits to going to war against America or any other peaceful nation should be held off the battlefield as long as they are dangerous.