{"id":97,"date":"2005-10-31T15:34:29","date_gmt":"2005-10-31T21:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=97"},"modified":"2005-11-01T14:57:55","modified_gmt":"2005-11-01T20:57:55","slug":"wilson-favors-anti-torture-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/wilson-favors-anti-torture-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson Favors Anti-Torture Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m no fan of Wilson, but I am happy to see her break with the House <\/p>\n

leadership and the White House. Duhbya wants the CIA to remain free to torture as needed — and surely wants more than just the CIA to be <\/p>\n

free to torture. How can anyone doubt that torture isn’t supported from the top down. mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

ABQjournal: Rep. Wilson Favors Anti-Torture Rules<\/a> By Michael <\/p>\n

Coleman <\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the Washington Post reported that the Bush administration wants to exempt the Central Intelligence Agency <\/p>\n

from new anti-torture rules under consideration in the Senate.<\/p>\n

The Senate voted 90 to 9 earlier this month to change a defense <\/p>\n

spending bill in a way that would prohibit harsh or degrading treatment of prisoners in U.S. custody anywhere in the world. According to <\/p>\n

the Post, the Senate wanted to close a loophole in current law.<\/p>\n

The White House reportedly opposes the Senate’s broad <\/p>\n

definition of what is and isn’t acceptable treatment of those detained by the United States. The House defense spending bill contains no <\/p>\n

such change.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wilson, a New Mexico Republican, Air Force veteran and member of the House Permanent Select Committee on <\/p>\n

Intelligence, said the news report troubled her.<\/p>\n

“It makes no sense to me,” Wilson said. “The United States government has a <\/p>\n

responsibility to live up to our obligations in both the Convention on Torture and the Geneva Conventions.”<\/p>\n

Truth About Torture<\/a> By Michael Hirsh<\/p>\n

The Bush administration has <\/p>\n

consistently maintained that it is not U.S. policy to abuse prisoners. But Bush has threatened to veto the entire appropriations bill if <\/p>\n

it contains McCain’s language — all in an effort to preserve the right to treat prisoners in whatever way the president decides <\/p>\n

is necessary<\/strong>. Last week Vice President Dick Cheney, with CIA Director Porter Goss in tow, met with McCain to try to persuade him <\/p>\n

to exclude the CIA from any restrictions. The administration also sought to cut out the term “regardless of physical location,” McCain <\/p>\n

said in an interview. The Washington Post, in a harsh editorial, later branded Cheney “the vice president for torture.”<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Cheney’s spokeswoman, Lea Anne McBride, said she had no comment on the McCain meeting. CIA spokeswoman Jennifer Dyck also declined to <\/p>\n

talk about it. But John Yoo, a former Justice Department official who drafted an August 2002 memo that justified rough methods, said last <\/p>\n

week that the administration should continue to treat terrorists differently overseas because they “do not operate according to the <\/p>\n

Geneva Conventions.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m no fan of Wilson, but I am happy to see her break with the House leadership and the White House. Duhbya wants the CIA to remain free to torture as needed — and surely wants more than just the CIA to be free to torture. How can anyone doubt that torture isn’t supported from … Continue reading Wilson Favors Anti-Torture Rules<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}