Vice President Dick Cheney (emphasis on "Vice") has been working hard on Capitol Hill to keep Republicans from siding with Democrats on a bill that would prevent Donald Rumsfeld and the military from carrying out more torture and abuse of detainees.
The White House is saying that they need to torture people in order to protect us from terrorism. How ironic!
From the Washington Post:
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The Bush administration in recent days has been lobbying to block legislation supported by Republican senators that would bar the U.S. military from engaging in "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment" of detainees, from hiding prisoners from the Red Cross, and from using interrogation methods not authorized by a new Army field manual.
Vice President Cheney met Thursday evening with three senior Republican members of the Senate Armed Services Committee to press the administration's case that legislation on these matters would usurp the president's authority and -- in the words of a White House official -- interfere with his ability "to protect Americans effectively from terrorist attack."
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I hope that our lawmakers on both sides of the aisle will stand up for what is right. Torture is never right.
For some good commentary on the subject from The Progressive, click here.
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