30.11.2011 - 21:08 [ Truthout ]

Senate Amendment Calls for a Return to Bush-Era Torture

An amendment by Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-New Hampshire) to the current Defense Authorization Bill (SA 1068) now before Congress would roll back the 2009 Obama executive order against torture by re-establishing a secret „classified“ set of interrogation techniques and then attaching them to the current „Army Field Manual“ on human intelligence collection.