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usregimechange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-10-05 09:25 PM
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Can somene help me find McCain's amendment text, i.e. torture
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usregimechange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-10-05 09:28 PM
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1. Nevermind GPO hasn't gotten yet
The text of SAMDT1977 has not yet been received from GPO
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LittleClarkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-10-05 09:33 PM
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I dunno, I think I got it
Look down
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LittleClarkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-10-05 09:32 PM
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2. Here ya go
The amendment is as follows:
(Purpose: Relating to persons under the detention, custody, or control of the United States Government)

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. UNIFORM STANDARDS FOR THE INTERROGATION OF PERSONS UNDER THE DETENTION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

(a) IN GENERAL.--No person in the custody or under the effective control of the Department of Defense or under detention in a Department of Defense facility shall be subject to any treatment or technique of interrogation not authorized by and listed in the United States Army Field Manual on Intelligence Interrogation.

(b) APPLICABILITY.--Subsection (a) shall not apply to with respect to any person in the custody or under the effective control of the Department of Defense pursuant to a criminal law or immigration law of the United States.

(c) CONSTRUCTION.--Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect the rights under the United States Constitution of any person in the custody or under the physical jurisdiction of the United States.

SEC. __. PROHIBITION ON CRUEL, INHUMAN, OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT OF PERSONS UNDER CUSTODY OR CONTROL OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.

(a) In General.--No individual in the custody or under the physical control of the United States Government, regardless of nationality or physical location, shall be subject to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment.

(b) Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be construed to impose any geographical limitation on the applicability of the prohibition against cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment under this section.

(c) Limitation on Supersedure.--The provisions of this section shall not be superseded, except by a provision of law enacted after the date of the enactment of this Act which specifically repeals, modifies, or supersedes the provisions of this section.

(d) Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Defined.--In this section, the term ``cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment'' means the cruel, unusual, and inhumane treatment or punishment prohibited by the Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, as defined in the United States Reservations, Declarations and Understandings to the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Forms of Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment done at New York, December 10, 1984.
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TayTay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-10-05 09:33 PM
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3. You had it in the thomas link
Just press this link:

TEXT OF AMENDMENT AS SUBMITTED: CR S10908-10909
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