Blue Blogs: Worthy Mentions from the Liberal Blogosphere

Here are what some of the other liberal blogs are posting:

Crooks& Liars: 'Breaking: Senate Judiciary Committee Votes To RestoreHabeas Corpus Rights' As tempting as it was after the Iraq Supplemental Billto lump Democrats and Republicans together, let’s give credit where credit isdue. The Democratic majority is the only reason we have to be hopeful ofrestoring this basic right taken away from us by the Bush Administration andtheir enabling Republican majority. Potentially, the entire Military CommissionsAct could be dismantled. Ari Melber at TheNation has more:

Today the Senate Judiciary Committee passed an important bill to restorehabeas corpus, the sacrosanct Constitutional right to challenge governmentdetention in court, by a vote of eleven to eight. Readon...

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TheHuffington Post: 'Report: 39 Secretly Imprisoned by U.S.'

LONDON — A coalition of human rights groups has drawn up a list of 39terror suspects it believes are being secretly imprisoned by U.S. authoritiesand published their names in a report released Thursday.

Information about the so-called "ghost detainees" was gleaned frominterviews with former prisoners and officials in the U.S., Pakistan,Afghanistan, and Yemen, according to Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch,and four other groups.

"What we're asking is where are these 39 people now, and what's happenedto them since they 'disappeared'?" Joanne Mariner of Human Rights Watchsaid in a statement. Readon...

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TheNews Hounds: 'Republicans Think That Scooter Libby ShouldBe Pardoned' Yesterday (6-6-07) on Special Report, anchor Brit Humereported on the groundswell of support among Republicans for a Presidentialpardon for Scooter Libby. "Scooter Libby had barely left the courthouseyesterday when speculation began about whether President Bush might pardonhim," Hume said. "...The subject even came up in last night'sPresidential debate." Later FOX correspondent Bret Baier noted that boththe President and Vice-President had chimed in with commiserations for Libby andhis family. Additionally, possible GOP candidate Fred Thompson told FOX's SeanHannity that Libby's conviction is a "gross injustice perpetuated in largepart by this CIA and this Justice Department and this Special Counsel who theyappointed and it ought to be rectified." With video. Readon...

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ThinkProgress: 'Lute: War Debate Does Not Undercut TroopMorale'

Iraq war supporters have repeatedlyclaimed that U.S. troops are harmed when Congress debates alternatives to theBush administration’s failed policies in Iraq. “Think about the message wehave sent them,” House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) said recently.“We have underminedtheir efforts, lowered their morale, and clearly sent the wrong message.”Vice President Cheney said the war debate was “detrimentalto our troops.”

Today, however, Army Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, President Bush’s proposed“war czar,” disregarded these claims.

“I don’t believe it undercuts their morale,” Lute told the Senate ArmedServices Committee during his confirmation hearing. U.S. soldiers “understandthe democratic process,” he said, “and, in fact, that’s what we’ve swornto protect and defend.” WITH VIDEO. ReadOn...

 

Comments

[granny]

On Habeas: Can we get (and post) a breakdown of the members of Judiciary, and their votes? And who the final co-sponsors were?

Very important to track the details of this all the way through, I think.

According to my reading, the bill had 17 co-sponsors as of yesterday.

These members of the committee had not signed as co-sponsors:

Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI)
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
Sen. Benjamin Cardin (D-MD)
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
Sen. John Kyl (R-AZ)
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)
Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS)
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK)