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First Get Rid Of The Lawyers

by David Kurtz
03.08.11 | 1:48 pm

Big move afoot by Republicans in House and Senate to strip the attorney general of authority over detainees and vest the powers to hold, interrogate, and try detainees with the secretary of defense.

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