Honorable Jim Webb
U.S. Senator, Virginia, Democrat
Senator Webb was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006. He serves on the Armed Services, Foreign Relations, and Veterans’ Affairs Committees. The following is excerpted from a November 29, 2011, statement on the floor of the U.S. Senate during debate the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012. To me, this is not a jurisdictional issue, and it is not an issue about whether we should be holding people under military commissions under the right cases or under military detention under the right cases. My difficulty, and the reason I support what Senator Udall is doing,…
