The Senate vote was along party lines with Democrats voting Yes and Republicans voting No, so this isn't a Republican thing. More likely it's a 'guys in power' thing. FDR suspended habeus corpus and interned thousands of innocent Japanese-Americans for years during WWII. Lincoln suspended habeus corpus during the Civil War. But I don't think anyone tried to simply do away with habeus corpus legislatively. I'm no legislative historian, though, so if someone finds different, please share.
Here is Carl Levin on the floor of the Senate explaining that it was the Obama administration that requested language in the bill that made it clear the bill applies to US citizens. http://sherriequestioningall.blogspot.com/2011/12/senator-levin-revealed-it-was-obama-who.html Having said all that, it may well be the case, as Gruss suggests, that the President and his team know things they can't share. This bill, if passed, would eventually be struck down in the courts, but it could be used in the short term to maintain internal stability. Still strikes me as dangerous precedent. On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You think Obama is tacitly allowing the GOP to have it's way and by > > extension Corporate interests? > > > > More like the GOP and Dems are really kinda all the same, when it comes > down to it. > > Obama is too. > > -Cameron > > ... > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:344409 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
