Terror: Bush/Cheney imod anti-tortur-lovgivning fra enigt senat

Man kan næsten kun tro, at det er løgn - men, nej - Cheney forsøger med stor anstrengelse, at friholde CIA fra en ny anti-tortur-lovgivning. Et enigt senat (90-9) med krigsveteranen John McCain i spidsen vil gennemtvinge lovgivningen på trods af trusler om et veto fra Bush. Dette slagsmål er foregået samtidig med, at Fogh ikke tror på tortur-anklagerne imod USA.Hele anti-tortur-lovgivningen er resultatet af senatshøringer om krigen imod terror med McCain. Ingen ved, om tortur bliver begået af USA, men tilsyneladende har senatet mistet tilliden til at det ikke foregår, og vil derfor sikre det gennem lovgivning - en gang for alle.

Læs også washingtonpost.com: Vice President for Torture med tortur-baggrunden.

Jeg vil her nøjes med at bringe uddrag fra USA Today (9/11-05):

  Bush is threatening to veto two major defense bills because they include an amendment to ban abusive treatment of detainees that the Senate has attached to both measures....The amendment would ban "cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment" of any person in U.S. custody, regardless of location or nationality

...og her er Cheneys svar (Nov. 14, 2005 issue):

Last Tuesday, Senate Republicans were winding up their weekly luncheon in the Capitol when the vice president rose to speak. Staffers were quickly ordered out of the room—what Cheney had to say was for senators only. Normally taciturn, Cheney was uncharacteristically impassioned, according to two GOP senators who did not want to be on the record about a private meeting. He was very upset over the Senate´s overwhelming passage of an amendment that prohibits inhumane treatment of terrorist detainees. Cheney said the law would tie the president´s hands and end up costing "thousands of lives."

...og McCains strategi for at tvinge lovgivningen igennem - han vil tilføje den til alle lovforslag indtil Bush ikke nedlægger veto:

  McCain´s strategy is to attach the amendment to bills that will be hard for his colleagues or Bush to reject. He tacked it onto a Pentagon spending bill that contains all military funding, including for the war in Iraq. He also attached it to a bill that authorizes Pentagon programs for next year. "We will win sooner or later," he said. "I will not quit."

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