Levin Comes Out Against Torture
by Matt Stoller, Wed Sep 27, 2006 at 11:05:58 AM EDT
Last week, Levin was praising Warner, McCain, and Graham for standing up to the administration. Now he's changed his tune.
The Administration has been even more relentless in their effort to legitimize the mistreatment of detainees and to undermine some of the cornerstone principles of our legal system. While the bill before us is a modest improvement over the language originally proposed by the Administration, it has adopted far too many provisions from the Administration bill."A substitute, which we will be offering later on today, is the [Armed Services] Committee-approved bill. That will do a much better job, if we adopt it, of protecting our troops who might become detainees in the future, and does a much better job of upholding our values as a nation."
Levin is a key influential opinion. This can be beaten back, and what it looks like to me is that Levin is trying to run out the clock with an alternative piece of legislation that turns the current atrocious bill into a procedural impossibility and keeps the Senate from passing anything this session. Call Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins and ask that they protect Habeas Corpus and the Constitution, and oppose the Military Commissions Act of 2006.
Susan Collins
461 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-2523
Fax: (202) 224-2693
Olympia Snowe
154 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-5344
Toll Free: (800) 432-1599
Fax: (202) 224-1946
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