It is sad to read the article Senate defeats challenge to indefinite detention provision on Raw Story.

The polarized US Senate on Tuesday beat back an attempt to set aside proposed rules on detention of terrorism suspects, defying a White House veto threat and criticisms from the FBI and the Pentagon.
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Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who voted against Udall’s amendment, accused Obama of overrelying on the FBI and other civilian institutions in fighting suspected terrorists.

That exact dependence which worked pretty well under Clinton and was decried by Bush.  Bush was the one who changed all that so that the 9/11 attack was not prevented.  The FBI had detected it actually, but their warnings went unheeded.  The Air Force stood by and watched it happen.

Why does Lindsay Graham want to use proven defective methods and forgo proven effective methods?  Who, exactly, is Lindsay Graham working for?

Is the preference for methods that are proven failures part of the Republican strategy to demonstrate that government does not work?

It is hard to imagine that Inouye (D-HI) voted against the amendment.  Wasn’t this country’s atrocious internment of Americans of Japanese descent during World War II enough proof of the dangers of going down this path?

It is easy to believe that Brown (R-MA) voted to defeat the challenge.  It just adds one more reason why Elizabeth Warren must replace Brown in the Senate at the next election.