Frank Dunham Quotations

We have never authorized detention of a citizen in this county without giving him an opportunity to be heard. He has never been able to look at the facts alleged against him and give his side of the story.

There is a food fight going on there in the Executive Branch, I am sure.

Whoop-dee-ding! They did the right thing. The court had to stand up for Hamdi. It's about all of us. You can't have a situation where the president can lock someone up and they can't have the opportunity to be heard.

We don't even know if a guilty plea is going to be accepted by the judge on Friday.

We don't get it, but we get sanctions. It doesn't really matter where that witness is if there is a national security exception.

We could have people locked up all over the country tomorrow. The government saying 'trust us' is no excuse.

We don't think the national security issue trumps the defendant's rights to get this information that is in the possession of the Executive Branch.

somewhat of a surprise, but not a total surprise.

A summary witness is ordinarily a dispassionate presenter,

It's the defense witness we're being offered a script for. We're being denied total access. They're sitting on the witnesses. They're not letting us have the favorable witnesses.

It's hard to say she abused her discretion.

They would have that take a vacation from this case.

I'm disappointed we won't get the witnesses, because they exculpate my client.

If you try to figure out the significance of anything he said, you're wasting your time.

If he doesn't have a mental problem now, he will.