DON'T LET THEM EXEMPT THE CIA FROM THE MCCAIN ANTI-TORTURE AMENDMENT
Having already threatened to veto the entire defense bill if restrained in any way from continuing its policy
of international torture crimes, administration operatives will try to gut the McCain amendment in conference committee.
Although passed 90-9 by the senate, three of the senators who voted for MORE torture, Ted Stevens (AK),
Thad Cochran (MS) and Kit Bond (MO) will be on the committee to reconcile the Senate and House versions of the defense bill. And Stevens has already declared he will try to EXEMPT the CIA, the primary offender in acts of
illegal torture, from being covered by the provision.
Those who are trying to grant Bush the right of an absolute dictator to torture anybody he wants anytime and anywhere
he pleases must not be allowed to sneak a CIA "get out of atrocity free" card into the bill. An explicit exemption for the CIA would not only pervert the intent of the McCain amendment, it would cut the heart out of existing law and actually WEAKEN prohibitions on such abominable conduct.
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