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Apparently Senator John McCain tried to add an [http://www.fcnl.org/issues/item.php?item_id=1567&issue_id=70 amendment] (to the 2006 Department of Defense Appropriations Bill) which would have banned "torture and inhumane treatment of prisoners"; VP Cheney has been campaigning hard to have the amendment modified to exempt the CIA from the ban. Obviously a contradiction there. | Apparently Senator John McCain tried to add an [http://www.fcnl.org/issues/item.php?item_id=1567&issue_id=70 amendment] (to the 2006 Department of Defense Appropriations Bill) which would have banned "torture and inhumane treatment of prisoners"; VP Cheney has been campaigning hard to have the amendment modified to exempt the CIA from the ban. Obviously a contradiction there. | ||
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| − | * '''2005-11-07''' [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/06/AR2005110601281_pf.html Cheney Fights for Detainee Policy] | + | * '''2006-05-23''' [http://www.alternet.org/rights/36598/ How Torture Became Mainstream] by Alfred W. McCoy, Amnesty International |
| − | * "Body and Soul" blog | + | * '''2005-11-07''' [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/06/AR2005110601281_pf.html Cheney Fights for Detainee Policy] by Dana Priest and Robin Wright, Washington Post Staff Writers |
| + | ==Blog Posts== | ||
| + | * "Body and Soul" blog: | ||
| + | ** 2005-11-07 [http://bodyandsoul.typepad.com/blog/2005/11/we_do_not_tortu.html 14:55], [http://bodyandsoul.typepad.com/blog/2005/11/wondering_out_l.html 15:40] | ||
| + | ** [http://bodyandsoul.typepad.com/blog/2005/11/graham.html 2005-11-09] | ||
| + | ** [http://bodyandsoul.typepad.com/blog/2005/11/round_two.html 2005-11-11] | ||
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There have been persistent reports, many of them documented, of official use of torture as a part of the War on Terrorism.
The first such incident to come to light was the Abu Ghraib abuses, but there have been others (e.g. Guantánamo).
Publicly, administration officials and spokespeople deny sanctioning or approving of torture.
Notes
Apparently Senator John McCain tried to add an amendment (to the 2006 Department of Defense Appropriations Bill) which would have banned "torture and inhumane treatment of prisoners"; VP Cheney has been campaigning hard to have the amendment modified to exempt the CIA from the ban. Obviously a contradiction there.
News
- 2006-05-23 How Torture Became Mainstream by Alfred W. McCoy, Amnesty International
- 2005-11-07 Cheney Fights for Detainee Policy by Dana Priest and Robin Wright, Washington Post Staff Writers
Blog Posts
- "Body and Soul" blog:
- 2005-11-07 14:55, 15:40
- 2005-11-09
- 2005-11-11