And, scary, too, is how hard it is for US citizens to form effective
activities to deal with the issues of secrecy and torture; without such our
divided labor amounts to nothing much. Even candidate active groups (and
seeds for them) are few and far between; many potential ones are
demoralized, distracted, or in some other way stuck. But, thank you very
much for keeping the issues on the table.
Peg
-----Original Message-----
From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On
Behalf Of David Preiss
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 5:12 AM
To: 'eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity'
Subject: [xmca] More scary news
The full info is on the NYT of today...
Senate Approves Limiting Rights of U.S. Detainees
Published: November 11, 2005
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 - The Senate voted Thursday to strip captured "enemy
combatants" at Guantánamo Bay,
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/cu
ba/index.html?inline=nyt-geo> Cuba, of the principal legal tool given to
them last year by the Supreme Court when it allowed them to challenge their
detentions in
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/un
itedstates/index.html?inline=nyt-geo> United States courts.
The vote, 49 to 42, on an amendment to a military budget bill by Senator
Lindsey Graham, Republican of
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/national/usstatesterritoriesandpossessio
ns/southcarolina/index.html?inline=nyt-geo> South Carolina, comes at a time
of intense debate over the government's treatment of prisoners in American
custody worldwide, and just days after the Senate passed a measure by
Senator
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/john_mccain/in
dex.html?inline=nyt-per> John McCain banning abusive treatment of them.
If approved in its current form by both the Senate and the House, which has
not yet considered the measure but where passage is considered likely, the
law would nullify a June 2004 Supreme Court opinion that detainees at
Guantánamo Bay had a right to challenge their detentions in court
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