U.S. Torture Policy

A very distrubing, comprehensive look on how the U.S. got into the business of torture from Newsweek. It points out that "The international Convention Against Torture, ratified by the United States in 1994, bans the 'cruel, inhuman and degrading' treatment of all prisoners." This is the exact same language as the McCain Amendment, and therefore the struggle by Dick Cheney and CIA head Porter Goss against the amendment is strange. It would seem to only restate an international convention that the U.S. has ratified.