rssDemocrats (as Predicted) Fold on Torture-Prevention Bill
Friday, February 26, 2010 at 8:41 am
- 7 Comments
It took, oh, a couple hours for conservative outrage — that CIA officials would face criminal charges for the criminal act of torture — to successfully derail Rep. Silvestre Reyes’ (D-Texas) Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Interrogations Prohibition Act. The measure is now stripped out of the 2010 intelligence authorization bill, Politico reports, on order of the Rules Committee, which, of course, is controlled by Democrats. For good measure, the White House opposed Reyes’ proposal, according to Marc Ambinder.
Remember, this is the House, not the Senate, where the minority party has practically no institutional power to derail legislation. Democrats have absolutely no one to blame but themselves for once again folding after the ante.
Follow Spencer Ackerman on Twitter
7 Comments
Trackback posted February 26, 2010 @ 12:25 pm
Social comments and analytics for this post…
This post was mentioned on Twitter by TWI_news: Democrats (as Predicted) Fold on Torture-Prevention Bill http://bit.ly/auDOTs...
Comment posted February 26, 2010 @ 1:24 pm
At what point can we say that Obama owns the policies of the Bush administration? And, I thought we already had laws that prohibit “cruel, inhuman and degrading interrogations” on the books- what's lacking is enforcement.
Comment posted February 26, 2010 @ 3:25 pm
I'm in the minority among Liberals. I really could not give any less of a shit if we torture terrorists. Seems to me like we Liberals don't want to face the reality of just who and what we're dealing with. These are the same people who throw acid in little girls faces, who put raped women to death for “illegal sex”, who hang homosexuals, Apostates, and Atheists. So we torture them now and then to get intelligence to use against their kind ? Boo- Hoo . These same people you defend are the ones who would gladly kill you, and your whole family . I don't care what we do to these stone age barbarians, as long as it makes them talk.
Comment posted February 26, 2010 @ 7:41 pm
Could it be the Dems are hypocritical on this point? Whatever people think today about torture, the founding fathers were against it, especially Franklin and Mason.
The bottom line is if the anti-christ showed up today, I don't think the framers would torture him. Someone may say I would change my mind if it was my son who was kidnapped; maybe they are correct.
Comment posted February 26, 2010 @ 8:25 pm
I'm in the minority among Liberals. I really could not give any less of a shit if we torture terrorists. Seems to me like we Liberals don't want to face the reality of just who and what we're dealing with. These are the same people who throw acid in little girls faces, who put raped women to death for “illegal sex”, who hang homosexuals, Apostates, and Atheists. So we torture them now and then to get intelligence to use against their kind ? Boo- Hoo . These same people you defend are the ones who would gladly kill you, and your whole family . I don't care what we do to these stone age barbarians, as long as it makes them talk.
Comment posted February 27, 2010 @ 12:41 am
Could it be the Dems are hypocritical on this point? Whatever people think today about torture, the founding fathers were against it, especially Franklin and Mason.
The bottom line is if the anti-christ showed up today, I don't think the framers would torture him. Someone may say I would change my mind if it was my son who was kidnapped; maybe they are correct.
Trackback posted September 7, 2011 @ 7:34 am
Related……
[...]just beneath, are numerous totally not related sites to ours, however, they are surely worth going over[...]……
RSS feed for comments on this post.
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
