Sunday, March 20, 2005

Congress Tries to Stem the Loss of Dungeon Master Jobs to Egypt and Syria

The House of Representatives went out of their way to vote on an ammendment to a defense spending bill to "ban the use of federal money to transfer terror suspects to countries that are believed to torture prisoners." It was largely a symbolic gesture that "reaffirms a 1994 treaty barring torture of detainees in American custody, whether in the United States or in countries known for human rights violations." The consensus on this was pretty amazing actually: the ammendment was approved 420-2. Kinda sad that this was necessary to reaffirm though.

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