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Thursday, June 17, 2004

Senate Violates Constitution, Tells President He May Not Torture

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From the Atlanta Journal Constitution:

The Senate, on a swift voice vote, approved an amendment to the defense authorization bill restating U.S. opposition to using torture and requiring the Pentagon to provide Congress with the guidelines it uses to ensure compliance with that principle.

This is in clear defiance of the profound and scholarly interpretation of our Constitution provided by the Office of Legal Counsel and the Defense Department. As the Defense Department memo puts it, "Congress may no more regulate the President's ability to detain and interrogate enemy combatants than it may regulate his ability to detect troop movements on the field." "Any effort by Congress to regulate the interrogation of unlawful combatants would violate the Constitution's sole vesting of the Commander-in-Chief authority in the President."

Bad Senate. Very Bad! You should be ashamed of yourself for preventing our Commander-in-Chief from torturing people. Don't you have any respect for the Constitution? The President always knows best. Repeat after me: The President always knows best.




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