Reactions to the Torture Veto

The New York Times posted letters to the editor in response to President Bush's veto on the restrictions of C.I.A. tactics. The director of the Bellevue/N.Y.U. Program for Survivors of Torture, Allen S. Keller, letter was featured:

The president’s veto does not make us or the world safer. To the contrary, it puts civilians living under despotic regimes at greater risk of being tortured, and sends a chilling message to humanity, including to the estimated 400,000 torture survivors now living in the United States.

Read all the letters here.

According to The New York Times ...

For six years, Central Intelligence Agency officers have worried that someday the tide of post-Sept. 11 opinion would turn, and their harsh treatment of prisoners from Al Qaeda would be subjected to hostile scrutiny and possible criminal prosecution.

Now that day may have arrived, after years of shifting legal advice, searing criticism from rights groups — and no new terrorist attacks on American soil.

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