2006年VOA标准英语-US Senators Predict Action to Allow Prosecution
时间：2019-01-12 作者：英语课 分类：2006年VOA标准英语（七月）
By Michael Bowman
Washington
02 July 2006
This photo, reviewed by a US Department of Defense 1 official, US military guards keeps watch from a tower overlooking the perimeter 2 of Camp Delta 3 detention 4 center, June 29, 2006
U.S. senators from both political parties say Congress is likely to give President Bush the authority he needs to prosecute 5 terror suspects held at the U.S. Naval 6 Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Discussion of how to adjudicate the detainees follows last week's Supreme 7 Court decision striking down military commissions established by the Bush administration for that purpose.
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Ever since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, President Bush has asserted broad executive power to conduct the war on terror as he deems necessary, including the establishment of military commissions to try terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay. Last Thursday, the Supreme Court placed clear limits on wartime executive power - a decision applauded by Rhode Island Democratic Senator Jack 8 Reed.
"The president declared, essentially 9, that he was operating on his own capacity as commander-in-chief," said Reed. "And, I think, the court reined 10 him back, and I think that is appropriate."
The Supreme Court held that military commissions must adhere to established U.S. military court procedure, unless Congress grants permission for those procedures to be altered. Speaking on the Fox News Sunday television program, Senator Reed predicted Republicans and Democrats 11 in Congress will work together, so that terror suspects are tried as the Bush administration wants.
"What it [the Supreme Court decision] insists is that the president come to the Congress - and in a deliberate fashion, and a democratic fashion, we give him the authority that he needs," he added.
That view was echoed by Republican Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky on NBC's Meet the Press program.
"The Congress is very, very likely to give the president exactly what he thinks he needs to continue to fight the war on terror. And it is important for all of us to remember that we have not been attacked here at home since 9-11 [September 11, 2001]. That is not an accident. The policies we have pursued are protecting us here at home," said McConnell.
The Bush administration has long insisted that the Geneva Conventions governing the treatment of prisoners of war do not apply to terror suspects, but that detainees will be treated humanely 12, nonetheless.
However, a five-justice majority in the Supreme Court ruled that military commissions, as they are currently constituted, violate a Geneva Conventions stipulation 13 that prisoners be tried by "a regularly constituted court."
Speaking on Fox News Sunday, South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsay Graham described the Supreme Court's invocation of the Geneva Conventions as "breathtaking."
"The question for this country is, should [whether] al-Qaida members, who do not sign up to the Geneva Convention, who show disdain 14 for it, who butcher our troops, be given the protection of a treaty they are not part of. In my opinion, [the answer is] no," concluded Graham.
President Bush has said he would like to shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention facilities. But Senator McConnell downplayed any suggestion that the Supreme Court ruling would hasten an eventual 15 decision to dismantle 16 the camps and transfer the detainees.
Meanwhile, political and legal analysts 17 say the Supreme Court decision could spark challenges to other areas where the Bush administration has asserted executive wartime privilege, including a program to wiretap international telephone conversations of suspected terrorists, without a warrant.
- The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
- The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
- The river marks the eastern perimeter of our land.这条河标示我们的土地东面的边界。
- Drinks in hands,they wandered around the perimeter of the ball field.他们手里拿着饮料在球场周围漫不经心地遛跶。
- He has been to the delta of the Nile.他曾去过尼罗河三角洲。
- The Nile divides at its mouth and forms a delta.尼罗河在河口分岔，形成了一个三角洲。
- He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
- He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。
- I am trying my best to prosecute my duties.我正在尽力履行我的职责。
- Is there enough evidence to prosecute?有没有起诉的足够证据？
- He took part in a great naval battle.他参加了一次大海战。
- The harbour is an important naval base.该港是一个重要的海军基地。
- It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
- He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
- I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
- He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
- Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
- She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。
- Then, all of a sudden, he reined up his tired horse. 这时，他突然把疲倦的马勒住了。
- The officer reined in his horse at a crossroads. 军官在十字路口勒住了马。
- The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
- The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Is the primary persona being treated humanely by the product? 该产品对待首要人物角色时是否有人情味？ 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
- In any event, China's interest in treating criminals more humanely has limits. 无论如何，中国对更人道地对待罪犯的兴趣有限。 来自互联网
- There's no stipulation as to the amount you can invest. 没有关于投资额的规定。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The only stipulation the building society makes is that house must be insured. 建屋互助会作出的唯一规定是房屋必须保险。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Some people disdain labour.有些人轻视劳动。
- A great man should disdain flatterers.伟大的人物应鄙视献媚者。
- Several schools face eventual closure.几所学校面临最终关闭。
- Both parties expressed optimism about an eventual solution.双方对问题的最终解决都表示乐观。
- He asked for immediate help from the United States to dismantle the warheads.他请求美国立即提供援助，拆除这批弹头。
- The mower firmly refused to mow,so I decided to dismantle it.修完后割草机还是纹丝不动，于是，我决定把它拆开。