senators on permanent detention
it didn’t take long, with the news breaking (as far as i know) in the washington post on sunday, it was apparently all over the sunday talk shows….
Senator Says Lifetime Terror Detentions ‘Bad Idea’ [reuters, january 2, 2005]“It’s a bad idea. So we ought to get over it and we ought to have a very careful, constitutional look at this,” Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on “Fox News Sunday.”
Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, senior Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, cited earlier U.S. Supreme Court decisions. “There must be some modicum, some semblance of due process … if you’re going to detain people, whether it’s for life or whether it’s for years,” Levin said, also on Fox.
“some semblance of due process”? that’s all we’re asking from america these days?