Decius wrote:
] Palindrome wrote:
] ] ] US Administration officials are preparing long-range
] ] ] plans for indefinitely imprisoning suspected terrorists
] ] ] whom they do not want to set free or turn over to courts
] ] ] in the United States or other countries, The Washington
] ] ] Post reported Sunday.
]
] This is strange. Xinhua is the Chinese State Press. Sometimes
] its a reasonable source but particularly on things like this
] it should be taken with a grain of salt. Google news doesn't
] show broad coverage of this story, and a lot of it is coming
] from places that might be considered "radical" such as Al-J,
] or the Washington Times.
]
] It took me a while to find the original Washington Post story,
] which I'm linking here. It seems to blur the questions about
] Pentagon detention of enemy combatants and the CIA's
] renditions discussed here a couple days ago.
]
] Reuters reported that "influential senators denounced the idea
] as probably unconstitutional."
]
] "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."
]
] Are we really having this debate again?

Obviously so