Friday, September 22, 2006

Dissenting GOP Senators Surrender on Torture

THE “COMPROMISE”—as the mainstream media is calling it—seems to be less of an agreement between Senators McCain (R-.AZ), Warner (R.-VA), and Graham (R.-SC) and more of a victory for the Bush administration. Though the TORTURE BILL will not redefine the Geneva Conventions clause on torture, it won’t contest President Bush from defining his own interpretation on what the Geneva Convention means by torture. In other words, the torture will go on.

Barring secret evidence from tribunals, however, was a minor victory for the GOP senators. But the remaining results of the so-called compromise seem to indicate a complete capitulation from McCain, Warner and Graham. Originally, they wanted to ban evidence gained from coercion. According to this bill, evidence from coercion can be used upon judicial approval.

What is even more startling is that the TORTURE BILL allows for this:

It allows the president to declare any foreigner, anywhere, an “illegal enemy combatant” using a dangerously broad definition, and detain him without any trial. It not only fails to deal with the fact that many of the Guantánamo detainees are not terrorists and will never be charged, but it also chokes off any judicial review.—New York Times
Sounds like the Alien and Sedition Acts during John Adams’ day, doesn’t it?

3 Comments:

Blogger Cathie said...

John McCain has lost any ounce of respect I had for him, a torture victim.

Jane Fonda doesn't look so bad anymore.

3:22 PM  
Blogger Bradley Herring said...

Yeah, those were some real GOP "rebels," weren't they? Fuck all of them.

6:38 PM  
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