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Posted: November 16, 2009 at 1:59 a.m.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “I don’t think we should run and hide and cower. Let’s use our system.” Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on trying five detainees accused in the Sept.

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