The battlefield--there are physical battlefields, certainly, in Afghanistan, but there are battlefields, potentially, you know, in our Nation.
Do you believe we are at war?
Some of these people are going to be held maybe for the rest of their life, but it will be based on our values, not theirs.
It has to have substantial due process.
OK. Let me read from Mr. Holder here. Would you consider him your boss?
So America needs to get ready for this proposition that some people are going to be detained as enemy combatants, not criminals.
I think you would be very qualified for your job.
You cannot detain someone indefinitely under criminal law. They have to have a trial.
Under law of armed conflict, as I understand it, and under the Geneva Convention, Article 5 says that if there is a dispute about status, wh...
There is a physical high ground in traditional war, but in this war there is the moral high ground.
No one is being arbitrarily held based on just suspicion or emotion but based on evidence and a legal process.