Keith Olbermann On The Military Commissions Act of 2006 2

September 29, 2006, the US Senate agreed to the Military Commissions Act of 2006 which gives US President George Bush unprecedented power to detain and try people as part of their "War on Terror." President Bush [has now signed] the Act into law. Broadly, the new Act does 3 things: 1. Strips the right of detainees to habeas corpus (the traditional right of detainees to challenge their detention);
2. Gives the US President the power to detain indefinitely anyone—US or foreign nationals, from within the US, and from abroad—it deems to have provided material support to anti-US hostilities, and even use secret and coerced evidence (i.e. through use of torture) to try detainees who will be held in secret US military prisons;
3. Gives US officials immunity from prosecution for torturing detainees that were captured before the end of 2005 by US military and CIA.

The bill was passed by the Senate sixty five votes in favor, thirty four against.

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[ACORNSUCKS]

@Jayn0o This guy is fucking joke.

[Jayn0o]

Thanks Keith Olbermann for bringing REAL NEWS and actually cover important subjects. To all the other mainstream media or should I say brainwashing machine media I say: Your worth less than trash.