and America takes another one in the........
Posted on 02/25/2010 9:56:04 AM PST by Nachum
The Obama Democrats have outdone themselves.
While the country and the Congress have their eyes on today’s dog-and-pony show on socialized medicine, House Democrats last night stashed a new provision in the intelligence bill which is to be voted on today. It is an attack on the CIA: the enactment of a criminal statute that would ban “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.” (See here, scoll to p. 32.)
The provision is impossibly vague – who knows what “degrading” means? Proponents will say that they have itemized conduct that would trigger the statute (I’ll get to that in a second), but it is not true. The proposal says the conduct reached by the statute “includes but is not limited to” the itemized conduct. (My italics.) That means any interrogation tactic that a prosecutor subjectively believes is “degrading” (e.g., subjecting a Muslim detainee to interrogation by a female CIA officer) could be the basis for indicting a CIA interrogator.
The act goes on to make it a crime to use tactics that have been shown to be effective in obtaining life saving information and that are far removed from torture.
(Excerpt) Read more at corner.nationalreview.com ...
The list, ping
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this must be the bill that they just had to break the health care summit for so the rats could go vote....
Well electing Dummies will always get a frontal assault on the CIA.
Wait a minute! Obummer degrades America every day!
Where’s “Mitch Rapp” when you need him????
Seriously, is our CIA so pathetic they don’t already have the goods on zero? If so, then they really are worthless...
>“cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.”
So, now that this effectively criminalizes televised Obama speeches what are the TV networks going to show?
and America takes another one in the........
So what distraction is Glenn Beck entertaining, ranting and crying about to keep you from protesting this ill advised agenda?
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