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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (685836)	6/16/2005 4:52:04 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Like I said: nothing I SAID. (By the way, though... if you'd ever like me to respond to what someone else is supposed to have said... it would be helpful to include a link to their complete comments. It is just too ridiculously easy for people to 'edit down' statements to make them appear to say something... so I seldom will attempt to comment on an un-linked excerpt.) My posts here, consistent with that principle and practice, attempted to address the broader issue of executive detentions without judicial review... not any 'specific' (LOL...) un-sourced comments.

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (685836)	6/16/2005 5:19:57 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

"As bad news continues to emerge from Iraq and the U.S. detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, some Republicans are starting to edge away from the White House on its policies in the war on terror," the Wall Street Journal's Chris Cooper reports. "The strains were on display yesterday, at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Guantanamo Bay to address what Chairman Arlen Specter called the "'crazy quilt' system that governs the treatment of about 520 suspected enemy combatants being held there. Mr. Specter, a Republican from Pennsylvania, called on Congress to set out rules." "More pointedly, Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, warned that if the administration and Congress and the courts can't come up with an effective policy for Guantanamo Bay, 'we're going to lose this war if we don't watch it.'" abcnews.go.com Chuck Babington of the Washington Post offers a blow-by-blow account of yesterday's four-hour hearing on Guantanamo Bay by the Senate Judiciary Committee, during which key Senators pushed for Congress to intervene in detainee policies in the face of Administration assertions that detainees can be held indefinitely. washingtonpost.com The Los Angeles Times' John Hendren Notes the heated clashing between lawmakers. latimes.com The Washington Post's Mike Allen has the details of the contentious vote yesterday in the House that defeated provisions in the USA Patriot Act allowing the FBI to seize library and bookstore records in terror investigations — the provisions that President Bush has been traveling the country to build support for. Bush has threatened to veto any bill that weakens the FBI's investigative powers. Passed by a vote of 238 to 187, the House version would require the Bureau to get a search warrant or a grand jury subpoena to get the records. washingtonpost.com