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Think Progress » Inhofe: Terrorists Already Incarcerated In The U.S. Were Just ‘Criminals’
In fact, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) says they are “actually criminals” who “actually committed crimes”! Are Republicans deliberately being ironical now?
CHETRY (CNN): There has been, though, here in the United States a number of people who have been convicted on terrorism-related charges in U.S. courts. … They’ve been held in our U.S. prisons. Why can’t that be replicated with the Guantanamo Bay detainees?
INHOFE: Because those individuals who are actually criminals, they actually committed crimes and were not involved in the type of — in the type of terrorist activity as we’ve been experiencing in Iraq and Afghanistan.
