It was then, watching the hearings in that particular political environment, that she says she had a “fight-or-flight” moment: She could continue to fight for the rights of survivors and underrepresented people like herself, or she could continue pacing her living room.“I chose to be a fighter,” she said. Leckey claims that Kennedy is a corporate, establishment Democrat who isn’t a true leader for the district. “The vast majority of detainees had been sold to U.S. forces for bounty by Pakistani and Afghan officials, militia, and warlords.” our military has had a near- constant presence in or over Iraq