huge bipartisan vote, so that every enemy combatant today has a habeas proceeding where the government has to prove you re an enemy combatant and if they reach that conclusion you can be held under the law of war as long as you re a threat to our nation. is that a fair summary of where we re at? that s my understanding, senator. along the way we, your legislation did prevail in the d.c. circuit and the supreme court. of course it was a close call, it was 5-4 as i recall. that proves that five people can be wrong. whul i disagree i certainly respect the court s decision. you re not going to get me to comment on that neither. not even going to try. the bottom line here is there will be more legislation coming regarding the role of the government and gathering information, but from sort of a civics point of view, which senator sass is going to take