[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 170 (Tuesday, November 17, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H13036]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       CONFERRING U.S. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ON FOREIGN SOLDIERS

  (Mr. CULBERSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Speaker, for the first time in American history, 
foreign soldiers captured on foreign battlefields are being given U.S. 
constitutional rights. The bigger issue for me and my constituents and 
the people of Texas, what outrages us most about these terrorists being 
tried in New York, is that now for the first time, this administration 
and this liberal Congress are giving U.S. constitutional rights to 
foreign soldiers captured on foreign battlefields.
  They are going to lawyer up at taxpayer expense. They are going to 
all ask for every constitutional right that a regular U.S. criminal 
defendant gets, and they are going to get off on technicalities. Now 
think about that for a minute. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and these 
terrorists are going to be freed on technicalities.
  No U.S. soldier should be held to the same standard as a police 
officer on the streets of New York. It's wrong. It violates our core 
principles as a Nation, and it endangers our military. We cannot give 
U.S. constitutional rights to enemy soldiers captured on foreign 
battlefields, especially these murderers, these terrorists held at 
Guantanamo.

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