[Osx-nutters] Anti-Torture Bill Fails in Senate

[Kevin Callahan]

http://www.democracynow.org/2007/12/17/headlines#4

Anti-Torture Bill Fails in Senate
Meanwhile on Friday, Senate Republicans blocked a bill that would have  
required the CIA to adhere to the Army’s field manual of  
interrogations which bans waterboarding, mock executions and other  
forms of torture.

Mukasey Blocks Congressional Probe of Destroyed CIA Tapes

Attorney General Michael Mukasey is coming under intense criticism by  
Democrats for his handling of the scandal surrounding the CIA’s  
destruction of hundreds of hours of videotape showing interrogations  
inside secret CIA prisons. Within a single 24-hour period, the Justice  
Department warned a federal judge to back-off of his inquiry into the  
destruction of the tapes, told Congress to delay its own investigation  
into the matter, and refused to cooperate with congressional inquiries  
into the Justice Department’s role in the elimination of the tapes.  
The American Civil Liberties Union called the Justice Department’s  
actions a stunning rebuke of the constitutional system of checks and  
balances.
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