Posted on 09/24/2006 7:58:43 PM PDT by Kaslin
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday he has a problem with the Republican agreement on rules for the interrogation and trial of suspects in the war on terror.
President Bush is pushing Congress to put the agreement into law before adjourning for the midterm elections, but Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said Sunday he "vigorously" disagrees with the habeas corpus provision of the bill.
The provision would allow legal counsel and a day in court to only those detainees selected by the Pentagon for prosecution. Other terror suspects could be held indefinitely without a hearing.
"The courts have traditionally been open to make sure that individual rights are protected, and that is fundamental," Specter said on CNN's "Late Edition. "And the Constitution says when you can suspend the writ of habeas corpus, in time of rebellion or invasion. And we don't have either. So that has to be changed, in my opinion."
Specter scheduled a hearing on the issue for Monday. Otherwise, he said, most of the legislation is a "big improvement" over what Bush originally proposed
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How in hell do we ever fight and win a war with Senators like this?
Did Nazi POWs get a hearing during WWII?
Although I have disagreed with McCain/Graham on this detainee rights situation, Specter is not all bad. He has taken an active role this Summer leading the charge to get the SEC to come clean on why the agency fired a senior attorney as he was about to proceed with prosecution of a Wall Street bigwig on charges of major insider trading violations by a major hedge fund. Judiciary Committee took the lead when Banking took a dive. Christopher Cox has been less that energetic in protecting regular investors from fleecing at the hands of the big guys. So far, Specter and Charles Grassley, along with Hatch and Bennett, all Republicans, are the only ones trying to get to the bottom of SEC's misconduct.
Thank you Andy Card you are truely the rino gift that keeps on giving. Thank God you are no longer advising the President.
OK, how is this Bush's F*up? Isn't our disagreement with Specter?
And by the way, I STILL don't understand why he replaced Orrin Hatch as the Judiciary chair. If someone could explain that to me, I would appreciate it.
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We should give these terrorists the same "rights" that they give the people they are out there murdering. Specter is a real moron. A Commie 'RAT in and elephant suit.
Terroists..........SEC
Throat slitters....Weasels
I want someone that will deal with the most dangerous threat now; I don't think the nation is threatened by a "wall street bigwig" as much as the killers incarcerated. Screw Arlen, If he effes this up I hope he gets it first. It's a damn shame that most politicians are better media whores than Paris Hilton.
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