By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - The Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee challenged Congress Wednesday to help define legal rights of terrorism detainees at Guantanamo Bay, bemoaning a "crazy quilt" system. Pentagon and law-enforcement officials defended current practices at the U.S. military prison camp.
"It may be that it's too hot to handle for Congress, may be that it's too complex to handle for Congress, or it may be that Congress wants to sit back as we customarily do," Sen. Arlen Specter (news, bio, voting record), R-Pa., said as his panel took testimony on practices and policies at the U.S. military camp at an American Navy base in Cuba.
"But at any rate, Congress hasn't acted," Specter said.
The hearing came against a backdrop of growing reports of U.S. abuse of terror-war prisoners at the camp.
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