VCS Action Alert: Take Action to Prevent Torture

Veterans for Common Sense

Posted 8/9/2004 7:43:00 PM

Veterans for Common Sense is committed to honoring the Geneva conventions and international law which prohibit torture. Unfortunately, a team of lawyers for the administration is determined to circumvent U.S. obligations under international law by redefining the meaning of torture. In a 50-page memo, they claimed that (under their definition of torture) the President has the authority to order torture whenever he feels it is necessary...

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/newsArticle.asp?id=1868