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Title: BREAKING: House Committee REVOTES Passes Bush Torture Bill (THEY HELD COMMITTEE REVOTE WHILE 2 DEMS OUT OF THE ROOM!)
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Daily Kos
URL Source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/9/20/19237/9278
Published: Sep 20, 2006
Author: "MediaFreeze"
Post Date: 2006-09-20 21:08:39 by aristeides
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Views: 494
Comments: 44
BREAKING: House Committee REVOTES Passes Bush Torture Bill by MediaFreeze [Subscribe] UNBELIEVABLE! More shenanigans in the House. Seems like the Republicans have REVOTED on the Bush Torture Bill and narrowly passed it having waited until two Dems were out of the room. Goodbye democracy, it was nice while it lasted. Earlier today, the panel had voted down the measure, 18-17, with three members not voting. The re-vote swung the tally to 20-18 in favor of the bill. Update: WSJ's Washington Wire has more details (and a better vote tally -- we'd originally reported 17-20). "The amendment might have passed had two Democrats not missed the vote; the two were at a news conference on the Medicare drug benefit." UPDATE: According to a staffer for Debbra Wasserman Schultz, one of the two Democratic congresspersons who missed the vote, the congresswoman left for a short prescheduled press conference on medicare reform, an issue critical to her home district in Florida. The vote was hastily called. Once she learned of the vote, she left the press conference and hurried back, but was not in time to record her vote.
Wed Sep 20, 2006 at 04:23:02 PM PDT The House Judiciary Committee just reversed itself, calling a re-vote and passing a controversial detainee treatment bill that has White House backing, according to House sources.
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#1. To: aristeides (#0)
Well at least the dirty bastards did their 'work' before midnight on december 24th! LOL..........slimeballs rule!
And they did this in order to legalize torture. Think of it!
This means so much on so many levels. A truly significant day. The first thing I can think of is that the US has lost ANY moral high ground over ANY other nation. It also means that ANYTHING coming out of the mouth by ANYONE held in federal custody is suspect- any confession, any information, any trial- (citizens or foreigners). Any person - American citizen or not- held in American prisons or by federal authorities convicted of any crime should now be suspect. Basically, any sane person upon hearing of a confession or a conviction of ANYBODY for ANYTHING- should question it no matter how strong the "Evidence". Now- there are people who will say that these tortures (in their Orwell speak they will call them "procedures") will be "limited" and strictly reserved for foreigners and to very specific cases. Bullshit. This is something that can't be regulated. This evil will infect every part of our government. Like in all powers Government assumes- they only grow with time and become common place. A "legal" slap will become a punch. A "legal" water boarding will become a feces dunking. A legal strained position posture will become electrocution. So on and so on- and the claims of the tortured? Dismissed. It's one thing to slap around some detainee in a backroom cladestingly and then have bureacrats lie about it. But it is another to actually have legal sanction to such acts. What this means- is big. It is a watershed moment.
This country is going down the tubes. I hope someone in the military ranks opposes it.
OH Fred... Are you calling for a military "coup d'état"?
#23. To: Brian S (#20)
Yes. Who in their wildest mind would think that Rumsfeld would still be in office?? He has screwed up everything militariy from day ONE.
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