Senate to Hear Detainee Issue After Recess

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate is unlikely to take up legislation addressing the legal rights of suspected terrorists until after Congress' August recess, Majority Leader Bill Frist said Monday.

Frist's plan not to act until this fall pushes the Guantanamo issue squarely into election season, when Republicans will be seeking support from voters by focusing on national security issues.

Republicans are discussing their legislative options among themselves, Democrats and the Bush administration, said Frist, R-Tenn.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Congress-Guantanamo.html

[Art_from_Ark]

1. Why do they call them "detainees"

when they're actually prisoners?

*Rhetorical question*

[Kagemusha]

3. Because not all detainees are POW's but all POW's are detainees.

Makes lazy writing easier and avoids taking a side in a legal fight against the administration.

[Art_from_Ark]

4. Note that I used the wider term "prisoners"

rather than the narrower term "prisoners of war".

[Kagemusha]

5. You asked why *they* call them detainees. I answered.

nt

[katinmn]

2. they are just coming back this week and they are already

putting shit off till after the next recess.

When do these leeches ever work??