McCain Moves To Stop Rick Perry From Torturing Anyone. Your Thoughts.

SGT Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 13:21:31 -0400

The ability of future presidents—whether Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton, or other politicians yet unknown—to employ torture as an American interrogation technique will be firmly and finally ended should a measure proposed Tuesday by Senators John McCain and Dianne Feinstein be accepted.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/10/mccain-moves-to-stop-president-rick-perry-from-torturing-anyone.html

McCain Moves to Stop President Rick Perry From Torturing Anyone

Some Republicans—including 2016 hopefuls Rick Perry and Rick Santorum—are still willing to use “enhanced interrogation techniques.” But if John McCain’s bill passes, they won’t get a chance.

Response by Col Joseph Lenertz made Jun 11 at 2015 2:28 PM

Col Joseph Lenertz — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 14:28:58 -0400

Has Rick Perry said he wants to torture people?

Response by 1LT Private RallyPoint Member made Jun 11 at 2015 3:12 PM

1LT Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 15:12:44 -0400

SGT Private RallyPoint Member Given the emergence of modern medical stimulation and imaging methods capable of noninvasively reading the content of an individual's thoughts and removing inhibition that would ordinarily suppress the revelation of selected information . . . I believe we need to be very careful about how we define torture . . . with respect to ensuring we are allowed to use modern medical technology to conduct more effective interrogation . . . without torture. Warmest Regards, Sandy

http://www.spaef.com/file.php?id=1266

http://cornelllawreview.org/files/2013/03/Thompsonfinal.pdf

http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/DownloadFile.ashx?pdf=1&FileId=11052&articleId=30369&Version=1&ContentTypeId=21&FileName=fpsyt-03-00097.pdf

http://www.noliemri.com/

http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/imaging/mri-lie-detectors

Response by Capt Mark Strobl made Jun 11 at 2015 4:13 PM

Capt Mark Strobl — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:13:05 -0400

In order to maintain our good standing with our fellow Geneva consignees (and the World Community), we must always walk the high ground. If there is man who would understand reasonable interrogation procedures, it would be the Honorable Mr. McCain.

From a personal perspective, I'm just fine with squeezing the bad guys for some good intel.

Response by Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS made Jun 11 at 2015 7:58 PM

Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 19:58:30 -0400

Simply put, we shouldn't need laws to say torture is wrong. We shouldn't need laws to say torture isn't allowed.

We shouldn't need some #%^#%$^# lawyer debating what is and isn't torture. If someone even thinks it might be torture and has to call a lawyer in to debate it. It's torture.

We're supposed to be better than that.

You can judge the sickness of a society by the number (and type) of laws it has. If you have a law that says that torture isn't allowed...

Response by SSG (ret) William Martin made Jun 11 at 2015 9:17 PM

SSG (ret) William Martin — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 21:17:27 -0400

Pouring water on someone's head never hurt anyone or keeping someone up for several hours.

Response by SSG Stephen Arnold made Jun 12 at 2015 12:34 AM

SSG Stephen Arnold — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 00:34:50 -0400

McCain needs to stop torturing the American people and go away.

Response by PO1 John Miller made Jun 12 at 2015 7:09 AM

PO1 John Miller — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 07:09:11 -0400

CAPT McCain is nothing more than a moderate to liberal Republican. If he gets his wish, torture may well be deemed "illegal" but will that truly stop it from happening?

Will terrorists stop using it because the Great White Satan (the USA) says it's bad? I don't think so.