Hatch and Bond said they opposed the plan because it would bring terrorism suspects to U.S. soil.
The Obama administration said terrorism suspects arrested inside the US should be handled exclusively by the criminal justice system.
He had disagreed with Rupert Murdoch on some issues, including the detention of terrorism suspects and a licence-fee funded BBC, he said.
The Senate passes a landmark bill for trying and questioning terrorism suspects, in a 65-34 vote that split along party lines.
Obama said the federal system for tracking potential terrorism suspects will be reviewed because the latest incident showed it had possible failings.
Lawmakers have taken some steps to -- apparently to amend the defense bill to address concerns the President has about terrorism suspects.
Washington acknowledges making secret "rendition" transfers of terrorism suspects between countries but denies using torture or handing suspects over to countries that do.
Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is the latest Republican presidential candidate to weigh in on the techniques American interrogators should be able to use on terrorism suspects.
The high court's ruling on the state-secrets matter could influence other cases where the government is invoking national security to block litigation by terrorism suspects and others.
Under French law, authorities may hold terrorism suspects for a maximum of 96 hours without pressing charges, meaning the detention of those arrested Friday will expire on Tuesday.
The Bush administration has invoked state secrets several times recently, on two sets of issues: telephone data searches and on what's known as extraordinary rendition, the transfer of terrorism suspects to third countries.
According to U.S. officials, the Saudis have arrested more than 100 al-Qaeda members inside the kingdom, given American investigators access to interrogations of terrorism suspects and shared reams of intelligence on the Taliban and bin Laden's network.
Separate legal papers in the case of Khaled al-Fawwaz reveal that he wants judges to stop his extradition because there are internal US government telexes questioning whether he should be on an official list of terrorism suspects.
BBC: Abu Hamza-style delays source of 'fury' - Chief Justice
While President Barack Obama issued an executive order in 2009 disavowing the use of torture, banned the use of enhanced interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects, and ordered the closure of secret detention facilities, the order did not repudiate the practice of rendition.
Paul, a critic of Obama's drone policy, started just before noon Wednesday by demanding the president or Attorney General Eric Holder issue a statement assuring that the aircraft would not be used in the United States to kill terrorism suspects who are U.S. citizens.
Terrorism suspects or other defendants who might be considered at risk or a risk to others in the general population are typically housed in a section of the facility known as the Special Housing Unit, or SHU. Defendants in that section are housed one or two per cell and mostly confined to their cells, except for limited exercise periods each day.
The home secretary said it "raises too great a public safety concern" to consider allowing the courts to release some suspects arrested under terrorism legislation passed in 2000.
The problem is that, as Roberta Wohlstetter pointed out half a century ago in her study of Pearl Harbor, separating out the really important signals from all the "noise" in the system is only easy to do after the fact, particularly when the U.S. government has now assembled a database of an astonishing number of 700, 000 individuals it suspects of ties to terrorism.
The Lib Dems have suggested holding suspects on lesser offences while investigating possible terrorism, as an alternative to extending detention without trial.
BBC: Ministers want to hold terror suspects for up to 90 days
The UK's Terrorism Act, passed last year, allows police to hold suspects for up to seven days without being charged.
Police are currently trying to unlock the contents of 32 GB thumb drive that belongs to one of the Chechen suspects, according to Fernando Reinares, a senior international terrorism analyst at The Elcano Royal Institute in Madrid, who was briefed by Spanish security services on the investigation.
The authorities say about 700 suspects will eventually be tried under the country's anti-terrorism law.
Other measures that could be ditched include arrangements to speed up sharing suspects' DNA profiles and fingerprints and joint working in specific areas such as terrorism, human trafficking or football hooliganism.
Yemen's state-run news agency, SABA, reported Monday that two al Qaeda suspects were killed and two others were injured in clashes with a Yemeni anti-terrorism unit.
Three suspects have been detained at the request of prosecutors from the Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT), the Romanian Mediafax news agency reports.
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