[Update:] Roll Call votes have started on the amendments to the bill. Rockefeller's amendment has been defeated, Byrd's is up now, then Kennedy's. Last chance.
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Call for a filibuster on the Detainee legislation currently being debated! [Update: The only option is to get at least one amendment passed so that the Senate version differs from the House version and forces a conference committee. h/t Phoenix Woman]
Previous diaries are here:
Live Blog: Senate Torture Hearings V: More Warner Crap thanks to highacidity
Live Blog: Senate hearings IV: Kennedy / Byrd Amendments thanks to SallyCat
Live Blog: Senate hearings III: Rockefeller Amendment thanks to BlueInKansas
LIVEBLOGGING: Senate debate on Habeas Corpus II thanks to TheBlaz
LIVEBLOGGING: Senate debating habeas corpus provision now thanks to leevank
Quotes:
"An anticdote for self-inflicted wounds let us prescribe for ourselves the remedy fo reason - let this be the age of reason once more." - Byrd, h/t a lynn
this congress has a "high amount of vigilance in overseeing the exercise of executive powers" in the war on terror. - Warner, h/t Five of Diamonds
Anyone who says Democrats do not want to fight terrorism is lying ot the nation. - Obama, h/t Five of Diamonds
"I'm trying to protect American soldiers from torture, TORTURE!" - Kennedy, h/t smokeymonkey (can I hattip myself?)
"Please remember we're at war - we're not fighting crime." - Graham, h/t Ellicatt