Tell your senators to vote against torture

Sadly, some Americans, including our new Attorney General, don't want to admit that waterboarding is torture, and therefore illegal, and therefore beneath us as a nation.

These people refuse to condemn or stop the use of waterboarding even though it is forbidden by the Army Field Manual and was broadly condemned when it was used by the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia.

We're America. We're supposed to be better than that.

But apparently we're not.

So, since we won't be moral for its own sake, Congress will have to legislate morality for those in our government who insist on brutally torturing people in our name.

From Amnesty International USA, here is a call to action. Please click one of the links below and ask your senators to support an amendment to the Intelligence Authorization conference report that would restrict all US agents to the interrogation techniques permitted by the Army Field Manual.

In December, the House voted for an amendment to the Intelligence Authorization conference report that would restrict every agency and US agent, even the CIA, to the interrogation techniques permitted by the Army Field Manual. The manual specifically prohibits several of the techniques alleged to have been used by the CIA in secret prisons, including waterboarding, sexual humiliation and the use of dogs.

With the use of waterboarding by the CIA being publicly confirmed, and the refusal of the Attorney General to state that simulated drowning is torture, a favorable Senate vote for this amendment is critical to stopping the use of torture by any US agent, anywhere in the world.

Write your Senators and ask that they vote to end the use of interrogation techniques that amount to torture or ill-treatment.

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