mark wrote:
Legalize torture?

Yes. Hidden in the bill that is supposed to implement the recommendations
of the 9/11 Committee is a provision that would allow the US to send
certain prisoners to other countries where they might be tortured. Under
current US law this is not allowed. To make matters worse, the proposed
legislation would allow these prisoners to be sent to *any* country
(not just the country they're from, have ties to, or are alleged to have
committed a crime in), and it would be up to the prisoner (who might be
held in secret without access to councel) to prove that they are innocent
and should not be extradited.

Note that this so-called "extraordinary rendition" is contrary to the
recommendations of the 9/11 Committee, and contrary to statements Bush
made after the Abu Ghraib scandal broke.