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Backed by Catholics, evangelicals, Senate adopts anti-torture amendment to defense bill
The U.S. Senate in a bipartisan vote Tuesday approved a measure that would prohibit all U.S. government agencies and their agents from using torture as an interrogation technique.
Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, sponsored the anti-torture amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2016.
Catholic and evangelical leaders in separate letters urged U.S. senators to support it, because it strengthens current law and requires all U.S. government agencies -- including the CIA -- to limit interrogation techniques to those set out in the U.S. Army Field Manual.
It also provides for the International Committee of the Red Cross to be given access to all detainees.
http://ncronline.org/news/peace-justice/senate-adopts-anti-torture-amendment-backed-catholics-evangelicals
