3 posts tagged anti-torture bill

When historians look back and attempt to decipher how the George W. Bush administration managed to trample the Constitution and transgress the Geneva Conventions with near impunity, our mainstream media will stand out as one of the primary culprits.

Congress recently acted to bring the United States in compliance with the Geneva Convention opposition to torture. The rest of the civilized world adheres to the torture ban, but although it agreed not to torture, the United States has violated this ban repeatedly during the Bush administration.

Which remaining Republican candidate stands against waterboarding in support of the anti-torture bill just passed by the U.S. Senate?