{"id":1394046,"date":"2022-03-22T12:46:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T16:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1394046"},"modified":"2022-03-22T12:46:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T16:46:43","slug":"watch-lindsey-graham-vs-dick-durban-fight-over-guantanamo-terror-detainees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-lindsey-graham-vs-dick-durban-fight-over-guantanamo-terror-detainees\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Lindsey Graham vs. Dick Durban Fight over Guantanamo Terror Detainees"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-lindsey-graham-vs-dick-durban-fight-over-guantanamo-terror-detainees%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1394046&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) clashed Tuesday over the issue of the release of detainees from the military prison at Guant\u00e1namo Bay, Cuba, during the confirmation hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>Graham had just concluded his questioning of Judge Jackson, noting that in her previous career as a federal public defender, she had provided legal services for terror detainees in the early days after the 9\/11 attacks.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Jackson stressed that she had been deeply moved by the attacks, and noted that her brother had been motivated to join the military by the attacks. But she also stressed that under the Constitution, every individual had the right to a legal defense.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Graham probed further, questioning Judge Jackson whether the executive branch had the authority to hold terror detainees indefinitely as \u201cenemy combatants.\u201d Jackson seemed unable to recall that she had argued against that power in her briefs on behalf of her clients. (The\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/26\/us\/politics\/ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court.html\">reported<\/a> last month that Jackson has previously said of her filings in the detainee cases: \u201c\u201cThe briefs did not necessarily represent my personal views with regard to the war on terror or anything else.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>While noting that he accepted Jackson\u2019s role as a defense lawyer was constitutional and a legitimate form of public service, he noted his strong disagreement with the policy of letting terror detainees go, noting that Guant\u00e1namo had a recidivism rate of 31%, and that the inmates released by the Obama administration had gone on to hold leading roles in the Taliban regime, which seized power from the legitimate government of Afghanistan during a rapid sweep across the country last summer.<\/p>\n<p>After Graham had completed his round of questioning, which included several attacks at Democrats for criticizing the faith of Justice Amy Coney Barrett, and for similar attacks on past nominees, Durbin defended the release of \u201cGitmo\u201d detainees.<\/p>\n<p>Durbin claimed that the recidivism rate was only 5%, rather than 31%, and claimed it would be less costly to house Gitmo detainees at a federal prison in Colorado. Graham interjected, demanding the right to respond. He questioned Durbin about whether he agreed that terror detainees could be held indefinitely \u2014 hinting at the fact that any terrorist brought to prison in the U.S. could theoretically be released into the general American population. Durbin chose not to answer the question.<\/p>\n<p>Graham concluded angrily, saying that he did not care whether all of the terror detainees died in prison, or how much it cost, because he was determined to ensure they did not return to the fight, and because the Democrats\u2019 policy on terror had failed.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) clashed Tuesday over the issue of the release of detainees from the military prison at Guant\u00e1namo Bay,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1394046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}