Senate Votes To Outlaw Torture
Source: Huffington Post
BUSHWHACKED! SENATE VOTES TO OUTLAW TORTURE
WASHINGTON -- In a landmark showing, lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to outlaw the practice of torture and solidify a noncoercive method of intelligence interrogation, indicating a firm departure from the years of the Bush-era torture program -- a period that many have characterized as one of the darkest chapters in the nation’s history.
The road to that symbolic vote, though, was not an easy one, despite still-simmering outrage after the December release of a gruesome Senate summary report on the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program. Even in the days leading up to the vote, anti-torture advocates both on and off the Hill remained concerned that the CIA’s defenders would rally to tank the measure.
In an effort led by Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.), senators voted in a landslide 78-21 to tack an amendment onto the fiscal 2016 National Defense Authorization Act that would forbid the use of torture by any agent of the U.S. government and standardize certain noncoercive interrogation methods across the government’s military and intelligence arms.
The vote marked a profound, full-circle moment for Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chair Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who has spent the better part of the past six years championing a 6,000-plus page committee report that exposed the dysfunction and abuse that plagued the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program.
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The torture issue was finalized in the Geneva Conventions relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. That makes Bush/Cheney, et al, WAR CRIMINALS.
Todays action is like: I guess we weren't all that sure about the Geneva Conventions so we can't really hold anyone accountable. But now that WE have outlawed torture, anyone that does it from now on is in BIG FN Trouble!! 
And for republi-CONS, well, we certainly can't have that!!!! 
United States Senate and House of Representatives ----------you have 17 cohorts (now on the Jebby misinformation ---pedantic----tour-----------oh boy----- ) and two paid psychologists
( http://www.madinamerica.com/2015/04/torturous-evasions-american-psychological-association/)
that developed this crap (81 millions for the CIA) and then you have there "legal" advisers in colleges now brainwashing students with there version of law and order and still running around, who knew or twisted and broke the Geneva Convention document (and laws in this country under conspiracy laws to violate treaties) you know that pesky little document that was signed by this country in Geneva.
And what I really find striking is that John McCain--------leading the charge on this, ------but---- he is going around trying to put thousands in Iraq as we speak on the ground-----so to think outside the box-----what if one of those presently (3,000) gets captured.
This country hasn't even voted on an authorization to go to war in over 10 months.
Just call me a cynic
You're confusing torture with enhanced interrogation techniques. Totally different methods. Just ask the War Shrub and the Dick. They'll tell you.
(inserting this for the Sarcastically challenged)
