[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 20]
[House]
[Pages 27825-27826]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 TERRORIST DETAINEES IN GUANTANAMO BAY

  (Mr. BILIRAKIS asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BILIRAKIS. Mr. Speaker, I rise to express my outrage at President 
Obama's decision to bring terrorists being held at Gitmo to American 
soil for prosecution in our criminal justice system. This dangerous 
decision will grant these detainees, including the admitted mastermind 
behind 9/11, constitutional rights to which they most certainly are not 
entitled.
  Prosecuting these detainees in our criminal courts also will raise 
the risk that they could be released on technicalities and will force 
our soldiers to worry about such things as reading captured combatants 
their so-called rights and preserving the chain of evidence.

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  Mr. Speaker, President Obama's decision is a gamble that we simply do 
not need to take. These detainees are enemy fighters who should be 
tried in the military justice system, not in American courts.

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