If this is permitted to...

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

...stand, then they will soon be able to deny due process to anyone. This is so outrageous. How is it after the Supreme Court says they're entitled to challenge their detainment the Senate has the authority to put the question to a vote? What's going on here? I don't see how they can just slap a label like 'enemy combatant' on people and use it as a basis for depriving them of basic rights ANY human being should be entitled to. Surely that's illegal. Somebody with applicable legal knowledge please feel free to explain and/or sort some of this out for laymen such as myself.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051111/ap_on_go_co/congress_defense&printer=1;_ylt=AgVCTZyEd4cCifZnPgixzdeMwfIE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE-

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The Senate voted Thursday to bar foreign terror suspects at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from filing lawsuits in American courts to challenge their detentions, despite a Supreme Court ruling last year that granted such access.

In a 49-42 vote, senators added the provision by Sen. Lindsey Graham (news, bio, voting record), R-S.C., to a sweeping defense policy bill.

Under the provision, Guantanamo Bay detainees would be allowed to appeal their status as an "enemy combatant" one time, to the Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. But they would not be able to file petitions known as writs of habeas corpus, which are used to fight unlawful detentions, in that or any other U.S. court.

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[DoYouEverWonder]

1. If they were trying real terrorists

who would think they should want to broadcast the trials live.

All this secrecy is bullshit. Clinton tried and convicted the three WTC 1993 bombers in open court and they are all serving life terms. Bush hasn't convicted anybody major, no less find Osama or Mullah Omar or the phantom known as Zarqawi.