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  • Senate Bill Offers Aid and Comfort to US Enemies

    11/12/2005 5:50:03 AM PST · by FerdieMurphy · 33 replies · 799+ views
    Sierra Times ^ | 11/12/2005 | Jim Kouri, CPP
    This past Thursday, US Senate Republicans voted to bar terror suspects being held at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba military detention center from challenging their detentions in US federal courts. The bill proposal is a result of a Supreme Court 5-4 ruling last year that gave terrorists access to American courts even though they are terrorists or enemy combatants captured during the global war on terrorism. With the Senate's 49-42 vote, the provision written by Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican, was added to the military budget bill. On the floor of the Senate, Sen. Graham said, "For 200 years, ladies and...