WP: Plan Would Allow Terror Suspects To Be Sent to Abuse-Prone Nations

[kskiska]

Thursday, September 30, 2004; Page A01

The Bush administration is supporting a provision in the House leadership's intelligence reform bill that would allow U.S. authorities to deport certain foreigners to countries where they are likely to be tortured or abused, an action prohibited by the international laws against torture the United States signed 20 years ago.

The provision, part of the massive bill introduced Friday by House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), would apply to non-U.S. citizens who are suspected of having links to terrorist organizations but have not been tried on or convicted of any charges. Democrats tried to strike the provision in a daylong House Judiciary Committee meeting, but it survived on a party-line vote.

The provision, human rights advocates said, contradicts pledges President Bush made after the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal erupted this spring that the United States would stand behind the U.N. Convention Against Torture. Hastert spokesman John Feehery said the Justice Department "really wants and supports" the provision.

Justice Department spokesman Mark Corallo said, "We can't comment on any specific provision, but we support those provisions that will better secure our borders and protect the American people from terrorists."

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Why doesn't this surprise me?

That way they get the results of an Abu Ghraib without having to be responsible for anything. Despicable...

[movonne]

2. Well they are saying Non citizens, how long do you think this will

last...Next Americans.

[KoKo]

3. These people are all insane. All of them...eom..

[Just Me]

4. DUH!!!! They have been doing this all along!!!!

Gawd. This just,...

,...yak,...

,...we have the most cruel, most cynical, most destructive forces at hand,...

,...passionate about USING our blood to get what they seek,...POWER,..

,...and we simply do NOT GET THAT?!?!?!?

[Eye and Monkey]

5. there's that old quaint Geneva Convention again, so inconvenient

Pledges, treaties - not to mention just basic good sense - they mean nothing to these cretins. I wonder that they must foam at the mouth while off-camera and designing their schemes.

[shraby]

6. It can't stand, it's against the constitution.

The part that says any treaty signed is a part of the constitution. Too tired to look up the provision.