Detention Facilities and Bill Number H.R.6166

I today stumbled on the following article at marketwatch.com (wholly-owned subsidiary of Dow Jones & Company, Inc) that reports the following:

KBR, the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton Co., said Tuesday it has been awarded a contingency contract from the Department of Homeland Security to supports its Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in the event of an emergency. [...] The contract, which is effective immediately, provides for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities to expand existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations Program facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs, KBR said.

[...] or support the rapid development of new programs?

But it somehow looks nice together with the Bill Number H.R.6166 for the 109th Congress. The International Herald Trubune writes about this bill:

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These are some of the bill’s biggest flaws:

Enemy combatants: A dangerously broad definition of “illegal enemy combatant” in the bill could subject legal U.S. residents, as well as foreign citizens living in their own countries, to arrest and indefinite detention with no hope of appeal. The president could give the power to apply this label to anyone he wanted.

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Habeas corpus: Detainees in U.S. military prisons would lose the right to challenge their imprisonment. These cases do not clog the courts, nor coddle terrorists. They simply give wrongly imprisoned people a chance to prove their innocence.

Judicial review: The courts would have no power to review any aspect of this new system, except verdicts by military tribunals. The bill would limit appeals and bar legal actions based on the Geneva Conventions. All Bush would have to do to lock anyone up forever is to declare him an illegal combatant and not have a trial.

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Offenses: The definition of torture is unacceptably narrow, a virtual reprise of the deeply cynical memos the administration produced after Sept. 11. Rape and sexual assault are defined in a retrograde way that covers only forced or coerced activity, and not other forms of nonconsensual sex. The bill would effectively eliminate the idea of rape as torture.

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Building detention camps to support the rapid development of new programs and this bill together… wow, that really scares me.