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Patrick Leahy: “Well, let me go into one that takes resources--we have had some people say to actually go get terrorists and lock them…”

On the recordJanuary 27, 2015
Well, let me go into one that takes resources--we have had some people say to actually go get terrorists and lock them up in Guantanamo, even though we know what that has cost the American people, both in respect abroad and in dollars.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

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Leahy discusses the costs of detaining terrorists at Guantanamo.

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