Political Quotes

“this amendment is crafted to simply clarify and affirm what appears to be the law, and logic tells us should be the law today. If an individual is apprehended as a prisoner of war, they are detained under the laws of war until the conflict ends. But if, after being detained or when they are detained, it is determined they have committed crimes against the laws of war, they can be tried for those crimes. There is a slight ambiguity. I think it is pretty clear the military would have a right to continue to detain them as a prisoner of war if they were not convicted of the much higher burden crime against the laws of war. So the essence of this is simply to say what the judge said in the case involving the African Embassy bombing, the Ghailani case. The guy was acquitted of 284 out of 285 counts, and the judge said: You probably would be detained under the laws of war. So this would clarify that. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Who yields time? The Senator from Michigan.”