Daily Beast: McCain Moves to Stop President Rick Perry From Torturing Anyone

By Tim Mak, Jun. 10, 2015, Daily Beast

Some Republicans—including 2016 hopefuls Rick Perry and Rick Santorum—are still willing to use “enhanced interrogation techniques.” But if John McCain’s bill passes, they won’t get a chance.

The ability of future presidents—whether Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton, or other politicians yet unknown—to employ torture as an American interrogation technique will be firmly and finally ended should a measure proposed Tuesday by Senators John McCain and Dianne Feinstein be accepted.

The legislation represents a bookend to more than a decade of debate over what the Bush administration called “enhanced interrogation techniques,” which were brought to graphic light in December with the publication of a report by the Senate Intelligence Committee that detailed abuses committed during the years following the 9/11 attacks.

The new bipartisan legislation, attached to the annual defense policy bill that Congress considers, would ban the use of torture or cruel treatment by the military, the CIA—in fact all arms of the U.S. government.

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