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Military Commissions Amendment  Floor Speech  Location:
Washington, DC  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, most Americans
recognize that our continued success in preventing another
terrorist attack on U.S. soil depends on our ability as a nation
to remain vigilant and clear-eyed about the nature of the
threats we face at home and abroad. Some threats come in the
form of terror cells in distant countries, others come from
people plotting attacks within our own borders, and still others
can come from a failure to recognize that distinction between
everyday crimes--everyday crimes--and war crimes.  This last
category of threat is extremely serious but sometimes
overlooked, and that is why Senators GRAHAM, LIEBERMAN, and
MCCAIN have offered an amendment to the Commerce, Justice, and
Science appropriations bill that would reassure the American
people the Senate has not taken its eye off the ball.  The
amendment is simple and straightforward. It explicitly proh