CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte says the Obama administration is wrong to bring a recently captured son-in-law of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida spokesman to court in New York.
In a Washington news conference Thursday with fellow Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Ayotte said the Obama administration’s lack of a war-time detention policy for foreign members of al-Qaida, as well as its refusal to detain and interrogate them at Guanatanmo Bay, makes our nation less safe.
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Ayotte said military detention for enemy combatants has been the rule, not the exception.
She said a foreign member of al-Qaida should never be treated like a common criminal and should never hear the words, “You have a right to remain silent.”
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