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Team Turk on Friday, September 29, 2006 9:40:55 PM
Kansas City Star recounts
detainee restrictions.
The Senate joined the House in embracing President Bush’s view that the battle against terrorism justifies extraordinary limits on defendants’ traditional rights in the courtroom. The limits include restrictions on a suspect’s ability to challenge his detention, examine evidence against him and bar testimony allegedly acquired through coercion of witnesses.
The Senate’s 65-34 vote was a victory for Bush and the Republicans a month before the Nov. 7 elections as their party tries to make anti-terrorism a signature campaign issue. Senators in the Kansas and Missouri delegations voted for the bill.