Those are Senator Pat Leahy’s words on the impending Senate passage of this disgraceful bill on detainee rights. See this NY Times report:
“What this bill would do is take our civilization back 900 years,” to before the adoption of the writ of habeus corpus in medieval England, Senator [Arlen] Specter said.
Fine by Bush and Cheney, fine by hordes of House Republicans and 34 House Democrats. And what’s behind it? Pure politics, as this Times editorial explains.
As usual, Andrew Sullivan and Marty Lederman are on top of it (but powerless to stop it).
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