Tuesday, May 21, 2013
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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.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., accompanied by Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill In Washington, Thursday, March 7, 2013, about the capture of Osama Bin Laden's son-in-law Sulaiman Abu Ghaith. Sulaiman Abu Ghaith , Osama bin Laden's spokesman and son-in-law has been captured by U.S. intelligence officials, officials said Thursday, in what a senior congressman called a "very significant victory" in the ongoing fight against al-Qaida. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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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.
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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