putting a few due process protections on an old George Bush policy is like rehabbing a house on a toxic waste site.

What was very surprising was to hear President Obama talk about what he called prolonged detention, but what I think we can all safely say is preventive detention, moving forward, the idea of detaining people not because they’ve committed a crime, but because of their general dangerousness or that they may commit a crime in the future. That’s something that the documents that President Obama was standing in front of, particularly the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, simply doesn’t permit. And when I heard that in his speech, I was deeply, deeply shocked that he would go in that direction.

I really yearn for the day when I don’t have to turn on my television and see Dick Cheney talking.

it behooves this government to start criminal investigations of the very information that they’re releasing to the public. You can’t just put it out there and pretend it doesn’t exist.

Vince Warren, your reaction to former Vice President Dick Cheney calling this an issue of political disagreements? VINCENT WARREN: That is a tremendous amount of nonsense.

the issue really isn’t about who’s going back to the battlefield; the issue is, who are we going to prevent from going to the battlefield in the first place by doing the right thing in the United States?