{"id":1325,"date":"2011-12-02T07:33:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T07:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/02\/senate-amendment-calls-for-a-return-to-bush-era\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:29:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:29:58","slug":"senate-amendment-calls-for-a-return-to-bush-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/02\/senate-amendment-calls-for-a-return-to-bush-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Amendment Calls for a Return to Bush-Era Torture | Truthout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/755166095\/senate-amendment-calls-for-a-return-to-bush-era-torture-truthout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/755166095\/senate-amendment-calls-for-a-return-to-bush-era-torture-truthout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/uXLfbJ34CbtUMbQh03ZAoDl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/>An amendment by Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-New Hampshire) to the current Defense Authorization Bill (SA 1068) now before Congress would roll back the 2009 Obama executive order against torture by re-establishing a secret &ldquo;classified&rdquo; set of interrogation techniques and then attaching them to the current &ldquo;Army Field Manual&rdquo; on human intelligence collection.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/ayotte-amendment-secret-torture\/1322665677\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via truth-out.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; LibertiesAn amendment by Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-New Hampshire) to the current Defense Authorization Bill (SA 1068) now before Congress would roll back the 2009 Obama executive order against torture by re-establishing a secret &ldquo;classified&rdquo; set &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/02\/senate-amendment-calls-for-a-return-to-bush-era\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1185,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/01\/07\/iraqi-torture-scandal-touches-highest-levels-of\/","url_meta":{"origin":1325,"position":0},"title":"Iraqi Torture Scandal Touches Highest Levels of NATO","author":"aslam","date":"January 7, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesA scandal unfolding in Denmark over the transfer of Iraqi prisoners by Danish forces to Iraq authorities, even as they knew they would be tortured, threatens to implicate the current Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen, formerly prime minister of Denmark from 2001-2009.Via truth-out.org","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1505,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/08\/06\/jeremy-scahill-bush-administration-authorized\/","url_meta":{"origin":1325,"position":1},"title":"Jeremy Scahill: Bush administration authorized \u2018sick torture tactics\u2019\u00a0|\u00a0Raw Replay","author":"aslam","date":"August 6, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesJeremy Scahill, national security reporter for The Nation, appeared on Current TV\u2019s Countdown with Keith Olbermann Thursday night to discuss the latest revelations about waterboarding and other \u201cwater treatment\u201d torture practices used by the Department of Defense.Show original","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1580,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/06\/29\/the-systematic-torture-in-bahrain-continues-with\/","url_meta":{"origin":1325,"position":2},"title":"The Systematic torture in Bahrain continues with full impunity on torturers | Bahrain Center for Human Rights","author":"aslam","date":"June 29, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesBecause torture is a peremptory norm of international law, Al-Khalifa frames his admission of torture in a way which makes it seem rare, justified and an exception to the rule. 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