SEN. RUSS FEINGOLD (D-WIS) (Senate floor) "The Military
Commissions permits an individual to be convicted on the basis
of coerced testimony and hearsay…does not allow full judicial
review of the conviction…; allows someone convicted under
these rules to be put to death.; denies detainees at
Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere people who have been held for
years but have not been tried or even charged with any
crime-the ability to challenge their detention in court.;
seeks to suspend the Great Writ of habeas corpus. eliminates
the right of habeas corpus for those detained as enemy
combatants.; disallows the accused to argue that they are not,
in fact, enemy combatants,; permits individuals to be
convicted, and even sentenced to death, on the basis of
coerced testimony."
CONGRESSMAN RON PAUL (R - TX)
“the law officially allows for citizen concentration camp
facilities..." "Right now we don't have concentration camps,
but . . . the authority has been given so that concentration
camps can come without Habeas Corpus."
SEN. PATRICK LEAHY (D-VT) "The bill before us does not
merely suspend the Great Writ, the Writ of Habeas Corpus. It
just eliminates it permanently.”
SEN. HILLARY CLINTON (D-NY) "The bill before us allows
the admission into evidence of statements derived through
cruel, inhuman and degrading interrogation. This bill
undermines the Geneva Conventions.. Have we fallen so low as
to debate how much torture we are willing to stomach? This law
would give license to this Administration to pick people up
off the streets of the United States and hold them
indefinitely without charges and without legal recourse."
SEN. ARLEN SPECTPR (R-PA) said it “set us back 900
years,” then voted for it.
DEMS IN FAVOR OF PASSAGE Senate (12)
Carper (Del.), Johnson (S.D.), Landrieu (La.), Lautenberg
(N.J.), Lieberman (Conn.), Menendez (N.J), Pryor (Ark.),
Rockefeller (W. Va.), Salazar (Co.), Stabenow (Mich.), Nelson
(Fla.), Nelson (Neb.)
GOP AGAINST Chaffee Rhode Island
Jeffords (Independent) against |
