Bipartisan effort to permanently ban torture

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Mary Bruno

Mary Bruno Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Bipartisan effort to permanently ban torture</h1>
                <h2><p>Republican Senator John McCain and his Democratic colleague Senator Dianne Feinstein are trying to make torture officially illegal. According to The Guardian, the bipartisan pair introduced a measure on Tuesday to ban the use of enhanced interrogation methods, such as waterboarding. If their anti-torture amendment passes, says The Guardian, it</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/mary-bruno-crosscut-com/">Mary Bruno</a></p> 
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            <p>Republican Senator John McCain and his Democratic colleague Senator Dianne Feinstein are trying to make torture officially illegal. According to <em><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/jun/10/senators-bipartisan-push-ban-torture-us-law?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">The Guardian</a></em>, the bipartisan pair introduced a measure on Tuesday to ban the use of enhanced interrogation methods, such as waterboarding. If their anti-torture amendment passes, says <em>The Guardian</em>, it would turn a 2009 executive order signed by Barack Obama into law, "making it illegal for the US government to engage in torture, thus preventing a future president from reversing the Obama administration’s action."</p>
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Republican Senator John McCain and his Democratic colleague Senator Dianne Feinstein are trying to make torture officially illegal. According to The Guardian, the bipartisan pair introduced a measure on Tuesday to ban the use of enhanced interrogation methods, such as waterboarding. If their anti-torture amendment passes, says The Guardian, it would turn a 2009 executive order signed by Barack Obama into law, "making it illegal for the US government to engage in torture, thus preventing a future president from reversing the Obama administration’s action."

By Mary Bruno

Mary was Crosscut's Editor-in-Chief and Interim Publisher. In more than 25 years as a journalist, she has worked as a writer, editor and editorial director for a variety of print and web publications,