Breaking: Senator Lindsay Graham is introducing an Amendment to the defense appropriations bill pending in the Senate (S. 1092) that would strip those designated by the Administration as enemy combatants of the ability to seek habeas review in federal courts. This is an end-run around the Supreme Court’s decision in U.S. v. Rasul which held Guantanamo detainees have the right to challenge the legality of their detentions.However, you can rest assured that this measure won’t affect anyone important, right, George and Dick?
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This would effectively end all litigation brought on behalf of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, as well as any future litigation on behalf of those imprisoned at the CIA secret detention camps. This bill is intended to have retroactive application.
Steve Clemons at The Washington Note:
CHALABI News Flash: Congressman & Senator Call for Him to be SubpoenaedMore Fun With Chalabi.Just got word that Congressman George Miller and Senator Richard Durbin, in a joint news conference later TODAY, will be calling for Ahmad Chalabi to be subpoenaed.
Good call.