Haynes also defended the idea: "When somebody's trying to kill you or your people, and you capture them, you can hold them," he said.
"We are within our rights," Haynes added, "and I don't think anyone disputes it, that we may hold enemy combatants for the duration of the conflict. And the conflict is still going and we don't see an end in sight right now."
But, he added, "if we find that we're holding somebody who is not of intelligence interest to us, is not of law enforcement interest to us, is not a threat, in our view, to Americans, to the United States, to our interests, to our allies or friends as a terrorist -- if we don't have any interest in holding the person, we'll let them go."
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