As most of us know by now a bill was passed on September 29...
The bill would set up rules for the military commissions that will allow the government to proceed with the prosecutions of high-level detainees .
It would make illegal several broadly defined abuses of detainees, while leaving it to the president to establish specific permissible interrogation techniques. And it would strip detainees of a habeas corpus right to challenge their detentions in court.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
Just think about it...
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