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Lindsey Graham

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Lindsey Olin Graham is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from South Carolina since 2003. A member of the Republican Party, Graham has been a prominent figure in national politics, known for his work on issues such as national security, foreign policy, and judicial appointments. He has played a key role in various legislative efforts and has been an outspoken advocate for military support to Ukraine in recent years.

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Mar 21, 2022

These were five people that we had in our control that are now helping the Taliban run the country. As an American, does that bother you?

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Mar 20, 2022

I think the best way you deter crime when it comes to child pornography is you lower the boom on anybody who goes on the internet and pulls out these images for their pleasure.

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Mar 20, 2022

I hope you go to jail for 50 years if you're on the internet trolling for images of children and sexual exploitation.

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Mar 20, 2022

If she's confused about what happened, some people on the other side had an accusation against Judge Kavanaugh that during high school he sexually assaulted somebody.

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Mar 20, 2022

I have decided to apply my general policy disagreement with respect to those enhancements, at least, that is, the computers and the number of images.

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Mar 20, 2022

So just keep an open mind. That's the only thing I ask you to do.

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Mar 20, 2022

It is not rational to take the venue of choice of child pornographers--the computer that have 85 million images on it--and not consider that feeding the beast.

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Mar 20, 2022

Expedited removal is a creature of Congress, folks, and if you've been here 2 years or less the statute...

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Mar 20, 2022

To me, putting somebody in jail for using a computer is more of a deterrent than supervising their activity of watching the computer.

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Mar 20, 2022

I want people to go to jail who do that, because you're feeding the beast.

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Mar 20, 2022

I think that every Federal judge out there should make it harder for somebody to go on a computer and view this filth.

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Mar 20, 2022

I think you're doing it wrong and every judge who does what you're doing is making it easier for the children to be exploited.

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Mar 20, 2022

I would never do that to you. If I had some information that's sketchy at best that somehow you've done something wrong, I promise you just from human decency I would share it with you.

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Mar 20, 2022

So we're still in a state of war with certain elements of radical Islam to this very day?

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Mar 20, 2022

If family mattered, we would not have done to her what was done to her here in the United States Senate.

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Mar 20, 2022

I just want you to understand that it's important for all of us to know where you were coming from.

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Mar 20, 2022

You don't agree with that, do you?

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Mar 20, 2022

As long as they're dangerous, I hope they all die in jail if they're going to go back and kill Americans.

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Mar 20, 2022

Is it your view that we can hold enemy combatants as long as they're a threat to the United States?

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Mar 20, 2022

I think that it was an act of war by al-Qaeda and associated groups against the people of the United States.

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Mar 20, 2022

If that brief had been accepted by the Court, it would be impossible for us to fight this war...

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Mar 20, 2022

The reason I mention it is because in one of the briefs, you argued that the executive branch doesn't have that option.

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Mar 20, 2022

I'm pretty sure that in your brief, you argued that the executive branch should not have the ability to hold an enemy combatant indefinitely.

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