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By Kate Zernike and Neil A. Lewis
The New York Times
Thursday 07 September 2006
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Washington - Under the measure that President Bush proposed on Wednesday, Khalid Shaik Mohammed and other major
terrorism suspects would face trials at Guantánamo Bay in military tribunals that would allow evidence obtained by
coercive interrogation and hearsay and deny suspects and their lawyers the right to see classified evidence used against
them.
The proposed tribunals would largely hew to those that the Supreme Court rejected in June. The measure says Congress
would, by approving the proposed tribunals, affirm that they are constitutional and comply with international law, which
the Supreme Court said they did not.
Senate Republicans, who have been working on their own bill, said they were wary of the provisions on hearsay and
classified evidence and questioned whether the administration had resolved the problems that the court raised.
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