From CNN (finally reporting some “real” news…)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush breathed new life into the CIA’s terror interrogation program Friday in an executive order that would allow harsh questioning of suspects, limited in public only by a vaguely worded ban on cruel and inhuman treatment.
President Bush’s executive order bars the humiliation and cruel treatment of terrorism suspects.
The order bars some practices such as sexual abuse, part of an effort to quell international criticism of some of the CIA’s most sensitive and debated work. It does not say what practices would be allowed.
The executive order is the White House’s first public effort to reach into the CIA’s five-year-old terror detention program, which has been in limbo since a Supreme Court decision last year called its legal foundation into question.
So it appears that the Supreme Court has to remind the President that torture is illegal, and then, maybe, he’ll decide to limit the practice of torture, kind of sort of. It’s yet to be seen whether the 4th branch of government, the newly formed Cheneyicial Branch, will abide by the President’s Executive Order…
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