“Eventually, these people will have trials and they will have counsel and they will be represented in a court of law.”

— George W. Bush

In reference to prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, quoted in http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2225793,00.html
2000s, 2006

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