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At issue is a Democratic proposal to require the U.S. intelligence community to limit its interrogation techniques to those contained in a military training book called the Army Field Manual. Several Democrats who have received classified briefings on the current CIA interrogation program have said that the U.S. continues to...
In the spring of 2005, McCain began the process of formulating legislation to prevent a use of such extreme techniques and some of the sanctioned abuses at Abu Ghraib. Initially, McCain's staff proposed and circulated a bill remarkably similar to the Democratic language McCain now opposes. In a draft...
When McCain publicly introduced his bill, which was later called the Detainee Treatment Act, he had narrowed the scope to require the field manual's use only for the military interrogations or interrogations on military property. But the McCain proposal did also make clear all U.S. Government agencies were banned...
After failing to draw the numbers necessary to conduct official votes at almost a third of its meetings in the past four years, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) considered lowering its standards for attendance yesterday. Too bad old habits die hard. Not enough professors turned out to yesterday?...
Which, of course, they already do. So with that in mind, here's an alternative proposal for a presidential candidate who really wants to use bureaucratic change to help address social problems: Don't even think about expanding the Cabinet - shrink it.