DAR AL HARB - U.S.A.: THE SENATE APPROVES MEASURES THAT WOULD PERMIT TERRORISTS ACCESS TO FEDERAL COURTS & RESTORE HABEAUS CORPUS

Why did I have to learn this through the ASIA TRIBUNE?!?

Could it be that the MSM's, the ISLAMIC HANDMAIDENS that they are just don't want the American people to know that JIHADISTS, like OSAMA BIN LADEN will have the same rights that they do after having unleashed the JIHAD in order to destroy that very country?!?

The mind boggles...

U.S. Senate Bill Allows Terrorism Suspects Access to Courts And Restore Writ of Habeas Corpus denied by Bush Administration
Daya Gamage – US National Correspondent Asian Tribune

Washington, D.C. 08 June (Asiantribune.com): The United States Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, June 7 approved legislation to be sent to full Senate for ratification that would allow terrorism suspects to have access to federal courts to challenge their imprisonment at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The bill would also allow prisoners to protest their detention through the Writ of Habeas Corpus.

The Bush administration rewrote the laws totally ignoring the universally accepted Geneva Conventions that covered the due process of law for prisoners of war or terrorism suspects, and the Senate Judiciary Committee approved bill, if ratified by the full Senate, will restore the two basic human rights of prisoners who are in the custody of the United States.

Since the establishment of the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, the United States administration has failed to bring a single “enemy combatant”; the term used by the Bush Administration to describe terrorism suspects, before a trial or has allowed the Writ of Habeas Corpus to be used by the prisoners.

Hundreds have been released without trail during the past several years. And, hundreds are detained for many years without due process of the law or Habeas Corpus rights.

Even as the Bush administration decided to bring them to trial the terrorism suspects were denied the access to evidence. The explanation given by the administration was that it cannot make the evidence available to them as they are classified denying the “enemy combatants” the right to bring witnesses in their defense.

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday gave an 11-8 vote Republican Arlen Specter crossing the party line to vote with the Democrats in the committee.

The previous Republican-controlled Congress last year stripped federal district courts of jurisdiction over Gunatanamo habeas corpus petitions, the only available avenue left for the terrorism suspects to challenge their detention.

Democratic and many Republican lawmakers have constantly opposed the manner in which the Bush administration was handling the “enemy combatants” or terrorism suspects denying their basic rights to have access to the judiciary and the dues process of the law.

Early this month, Congressman Bill Delahunt, the Chairman of the Subcommittee of International Organizations and Human Rights, told the committee hearing that the United States is having double standards in dealing with human rights.

The Illinois Democrat Senator Dick Durbin told the National Public Radio on Thursday morning in its special program Day to Day, on the Judiciary Committee bill that restored the basic human rights of the terrorism suspects, that the Bush administration’s efforts to deny the rights of the “enemy combatants’ to have access to the rule of law was in contrast to the high values that America stood for in safeguarding human rights and advocating the values of upholding human rights to the international community. “It was a black mark for the United States,” the Senator said.


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