ElHombre
12-15-2005, 04:49 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051215/ap_on_go_pr_wh/congress_detainees
bush flip-flopped and agreed to continue the long-standing policy forbidding the US from engaging in torture.
President Bush reversed course on Thursday and accepted Sen. John McCain's call for a law banning cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of foreign suspects in the war on terror.
unstated: members of congress didn't want to be going into election season with a record of voting to allow torture.
McCain said there are no loopholes in the agreement. The negotiations with the White House produced an agreement to provide to civilian interrogators the same legal defense protections as those afforded military interrogators and to set up a process for legal counsel.
funny part:
The White House long has contended that the United States does not engage in torture.
which makes one wonder why they fought so hard against the passing of this law.
bush flip-flopped and agreed to continue the long-standing policy forbidding the US from engaging in torture.
President Bush reversed course on Thursday and accepted Sen. John McCain's call for a law banning cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of foreign suspects in the war on terror.
unstated: members of congress didn't want to be going into election season with a record of voting to allow torture.
McCain said there are no loopholes in the agreement. The negotiations with the White House produced an agreement to provide to civilian interrogators the same legal defense protections as those afforded military interrogators and to set up a process for legal counsel.
funny part:
The White House long has contended that the United States does not engage in torture.
which makes one wonder why they fought so hard against the passing of this law.