Battling torture
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- February
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Former government officials from both parties argue that torture makes us less safe and violates our values.
They have formed the Partnership for a Secure America and they want to stop President Bush from vetoing a bill that would apply the rules of the Army Field Manual to every US government agency.
“We believe that the United States is being ill-served by the growing partisan divide surrounding its national security and foreign policy,” the group says on its Web site. “Although partisan rancor has traditionally stopped ‘at the water’s edge,’ this tradition of bipartisan cooperation has eroded significantly in recent years in negative and harmful ways.”
Here’s its “statement”:http://www.psaonline.org/article.php?id=283 on why it backs uniform interrogation standards.
“The book on interrogation has been written,” it says above a photo of the Army Field Manual. “We just need to follow it.”
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