Senators say legislation needed for Guantanamo

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress should pass legislation defining the legal status of enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay to avoid more damage to the United States' image abroad and reprisals against U.S. soldiers, senators said on Thursday.

But the Pentagon said existing laws allow the indefinite detention of people the United States has deemed enemies in the war on terrorism, and that legislation could be too restrictive and was not needed.

"The truth is due to no one's fault Guantanamo Bay is a legal mess," Sen. Lindsey Graham (news, bio, voting record), a South Carolina Republican, said at a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing.

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"Our troops are looking at us to see whether we're going to adopt a standard that if they were captured would be acceptable," said Sen. Carl Levin (news, bio, voting record) of Michigan, the committee's top Democrat.

Warner defended Guantanamo's current operations "as the best they can do under a framework of laws that is either not clear or needs to be refined."

more:http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050714/pl_nm/security_guantanamo_dc_3

Sorry Lindsey it's the administration's fault...take some god damned responsibility for once. :mad:

[lumpy]

1. Question :Just who makes the decisions

regarding the incarceration of 'detainees'? If these are decisions made by the military, the Congress (according to the US Constitution)has the obligation to oversee military decisions.