Administration Quote by Barack Obama

[Barack] Obama believes you can hold enemy combatants, unlawful enemy combatants at Gitmo without a criminal trial because this is law of war detention.

— Chris Matthews

As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without trial or hearing.…

— Fred Korematsu

As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without a trial or…

— Fred Korematsu

Under unitary executive theory, the [George W.]Bush administration has claimed the right to seize American citizens in the United States and imprison them indefinitely…

— Dick Durbin

American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders.

— Barack Obama

It should go without saying that regular citizens have no authority to arrest or detain anyone.

— Michelle Lujan Grisham

“The entire premise behind the Bush administration's policy of holding 'enemy combatants' in foreign military bases such as Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was so that…

— Mark Gibney

It is reasonable to insist that when the government deprives a person of his or her liberty? and in this case for an indefinite…

— Jeff Bingaman

I've been a military lawyer for 33 years. A member of al Qaeda or their affiliate group can be detained under a law of…

— Lindsey Graham

I believe that we need to set conditions to close the detention facility at Guantanamo. This includes retaining the option to transfer detainees from…

— Pete Visclosky

The Constitution should contain a provision that every officer of the Government who should neglect or refuse to extend the protection guaranteed in the…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

If you suspend the Geneva Conventions, give the green light to anything that will get intelligence, round up thousands all over the globe with…

— Andrew Sullivan