combatant is a necessary incident to the conduct of this war. there is no question about the constitutionality of the detention at guantánamo bay. let s talk about the merits. current detainees have been off the battlefield for some time. they may continue to provide vital intelligence to u.s. intelligence collection is that we now focus on those who are there today. they re still engage in the counterterrorism battle all around the globe. we need to have a secure location in which to detain captured enemy combatants. intelligence collection that occurs at this location is enormous to our efforts to continue to identify and capture additional enemy combatants and defeat our enemy. i just returned from a trip to afghanistan as well. i can assure you there are many folks there that would either be to kill or capture.we will serve our national security far better if we were able to capture them. we talked about options. what are our alternatives? we could release them to third-