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He said they "helped to engineer the distraction of the war in Iraq at a time when we could have pinned down the people who actually committed 9-11." He said Osama bin Laden is still at large in part because of their failed strategies.
"What they are trying to do is what they've done every election cycle, which is to use terrorism as a club to make the American people afraid – to win elections," Tapper quoted Obama.
"They are not serious about this," continued Obama. "Because if they wanted to have a serious conversation about it then they would know for example that the issue of habeas corpus is not designed to free prisoners; what it's designed to do is make sure that prisoners who are being held have at least one shot to say, 'I'm being held wrongly.'"
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