The Republicans in charge of the various national security committees know how to write.
We are concerned that the lack of a comprehensive military detention system will continue to have numerous detrimental results, including: incentivizing lethal operations over law of war detention; the loss of critical detainee-provided intelligence; forcing the United States to be wholly dependent on foreign governments to hold and provide access to detainees; and, as in Warsame’s case, bringing terrorists to the United States
The implications are that 1) we can “do more” to gather intelligence from detainees so long as they are not on US soil; 2) we never want to rely on other countries for help; 3) for the love of god, please don’t ever let a detainee set foot on the continental United States. Continue reading
