Current Federal Administration Agrees to Banning Torture 0
The announcement of a deal at the White House yesterday was a setback for the administration, which had pressed the senator to either drop the measure or modify it so that interrogators, especially with the CIA, would have the flexibility to use a range of extreme tactics on terrorism suspects. In the end, McCain, bolstered by strong support in both houses of Congress, was willing to add only two paragraphs that would give civilian interrogators legal protections that are already afforded to military interrogators.
I find no satisfaction in this.
The current Federal Administration has dragged the reputation of the United States of American through the mud.
Given their willingness to ignore law, truthfulness, and moral standards whenever it suits their will, I suspect that they will hold themselves to this agreement with the same diligence that they have held themselves to their oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States (wonder if they have ever read it all the way through?).
Which they have, except for lying us into a war, spying on innocent citizens (Quakers being a historically dangerous group), selling off the assets of the country to the highest bidder, running concentration camps.
They make the Harding administration look like an exemplar of the public trust.
