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...planned to play the national security card on Capitol Hill this election season, but they are being trumped by one of their own: South Carolina's Lindsey Graham. As they had in the last two election cycles, Republicans intended to force a series of "bad votes" for the Democrats this September, designed to make them look weak on defense and national security. Pushing through hard-line bills that would authorize President Bush's programs of domestic surveillance and terrorism tribunals, the White House and Republican leaders thought, would force Democrats either to oppose popular anti-terrorism initiatives or play...
...Lindsey Graham Is Blocking Bush on Terror Trials The conservative senator has been an Administration ally in the past, but he thinks Bush's restrictions on the rights of defendants are "a bridge...
...Lindsey Graham Is Blocking Bush on Terror Trials The conservative senator has been an Administration ally in the past, but he thinks Bush's restrictions on the rights of defendants are "a bridge...
...Following his speech on Wednesday and the release of the documents, the President has asked Congress to pass legislation setting protected standards within which the CIA may continue detaining and interrogating terrorists who are caught in the future - while sending others to be tried in military tribunals. Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, pronounced the CIA prisons "a thing of the past." But Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, the top Democrat on the intelligence committee, told of Graham's conclusion, said he was "not so sure." Bush, who is at a low ebb in relations and credibility with...
...party lines--sponsoring foster-care legislation with Tom DeLay, then the House majority leader, and pushing health-care proposals with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, the Clintons' nemesis in their 1994 effort to reform health care. One of her closest friends in the chamber is South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham, who came to national attention as one of the House managers of the impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton...