Reply #6: please read the other threads on this from tonight. it is not as it seems.

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5665289

even in the article you linked, it says that:
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Opponents say the proposal appears to offer safeguards but could leave prisoners in a legal black hole. It has been overshadowed by an amendment offered by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to ban the use of torture by U.S. interrogators, and the Bush administration's opposition to it.

Michael Greco, president of the American Bar Association, said the Graham-Levin plan would keep foreign-born detainees out of federal courts and deny them an independent judicial review of the way the U.S. military has handled their cases. Greco sees it as a way around a 2004 Supreme Court decision that said Guantanamo prisoners could ask the courts to hear their cases.

If it becomes law, he said, detainees would lose the writ of habeas corpus -- the ability to ask federal judges to review the facts of their individual cases. Habeas corpus is used frequently by U.S. prisoners to challenge the conditions under which they're being held or the grounds on which they've been jailed. Prisoners at Guantanamo have filed about 160 habeas corpus petitions.

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it also appears it only passed senate in november.

still reading it all...


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