AP: Senate to Settle Detainee Issue on Floor

[Eugene]

Senate to Settle Detainee Issue on Floor

By ANNE PLUMMER FLAHERTY, Associated Press Writer

Friday, September 15, 2006

(09-15) 00:45 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --

Senate GOP leaders facing rebellion in their own ranks against President Bush's
plan to interrogate and prosecute terrorism suspects will call for a vote on the
proposal as early as next week.

Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell said no decision had been made on when
to vote on the measure, but he added that he hoped a floor vote would settle
the issue.

The election-year debate has pitted Republicans against each other and kept
in limbo the legal bounds of the CIA program to detain and interrogate "high-value"
terrorism suspects. A successful vote for Bush also would allow the president
to begin prosecuting detainees allegedly connected to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

-snip-

Full article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/09/15/national/w004529D70.DTL

Related LBN thread: Senate Armed Services Cmte. Passes Own Terrorism Tribunal Bill

[texpatriot2004]

1. The Cover-Up Congress can be held accountable for being

complicit in war crimes...they better uphold the rule of law!