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	Whitehouse agrees to McCain's torture ban

adamc

12-15-2005 12:02 PM

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john mccain, whitehouse, george bush, torture, ban, cia

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John McCain's call for a law specifically banning cruel, inhuman and
degrading treatment of foreign suspects in the war on terror, several
congressional officials said Thursday. The congressional officials
spoke on condition of anonymity, saying they did not want to pre-empt
an expected announcement later in the day at the White House, possibly
by President Bush and McCain.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/12/15/D8EGPTI00.html"><FONT class='story'>The White House at one point threatened a veto if the ban was included
in legislation sent to his desk, and Vice President Dick Cheney made an
unusual personal appeal to all Republican senators to give an exemption
to the CIA.</FONT></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CAFEB16D-2E02-455C-9DCE-E2697BD6EEDC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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