This just in from the Washington Examiner. While Obama holds his health care summit, the House is getting ready to debate the 2010 Intelligence Authorization Act (H.R. 2701). In the middle of the night they slipped an addition into the bill.
The Democratic addition is called the “Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Interrogations Prohibition Act of 2010,” and it was inserted into the larger intelligence bill without being considered by the House Intelligence Committee. It covers “any officer or employee of the intelligence community” who, during an interrogation, engages in beatings, the infliction pain, forced sexual acts, inducing hypothermia, conducting mock executions or “depriving the [detainee] of necessary food, water, sleep, or medical care.” The bill gives Congress flexibility in defining just what those terms mean, and it would provide for punishments of up to 20 years in prison and life behind bars if a detainee dies as a result of the interrogation.
Democrats hate the folks who keep us safe.
Update: Memeorandum picked up the story at National Review. Liz Cheney issued a statement which can be found here.
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