Statement of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold In Response to the Attorney General’s Remarks on Detainee Hearings July 21, 2008 “The Attorney General’s comments today appeared to be an attempt to create an election-year security issue where there isn’t one. Our federal courts are capable of handling these cases, and no dangerous detainees held at Guantanamo will be released anytime soon. By repeatedly mishandling these cases, the administration has delayed justice from being served. If congressional action is needed to clean up the mess the administration created at Guantanamo, it should be taken alongside a new administration that doesn’t have such contempt for the rule of law.”

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