Senate Narrowly Rejects Detainee Bill Amendment
By William Branigin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 28, 2006; 12:42 PM
The Senate today narrowly rejected a measure that would have allowed suspected terrorists to challenge their detention in federal court, as the body moved closer to passing a White House-backed bill to authorize special military tribunals for detainees held at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere.
The article goes on to say that the full measure, which the House already passed toady, will likely be passed by the senate later today.
Something for them to take home to voters, I guess. "Well folks, I voted for the bill that lets us torture terrorists and detain them forever without any possibility of them ever seeing a judge." Build a fence around America, authorize torture, suspend habeas corpus, all in a day's work for the 109th Congress.
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