{"id":362602,"date":"2010-02-25T14:33:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T19:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=77695"},"modified":"2010-02-25T14:33:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T19:33:27","slug":"rep-reyes-introduces-a-measure-re-criminalizing-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/362602","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Reyes Introduces a Measure Re-Criminalizing Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas), the chairman of the House intelligence committee, introduced an amendment to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opencongress.org\/bill\/111-h2701\/show\">the 2010 intelligence authorization bill<\/a> imposing a 15-year criminal sentence on any &#8220;officer or employee of the intelligence community&#8221; who tortures a detainee. (Twenty years if the torture involves an &#8220;act of medical malfeasance&#8221;; life if the detainee dies.)<span id=\"more-77695\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the proposed Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Interrogations Prohibition Act proscribes &#8220;forcing the individual to be naked, perform sexual acts or pose in a sexual manner&#8221; &#8212; a la Abu Ghraib &#8212; &#8220;beatings, electrical shock, burns, or inflicting physical pain; waterboarding; using military working dogs; inducing hypothermia&#8221; &#8212; it happened at Guantanamo to Mohammed al-Qatani &#8212; sleep deprivation, dietary manipulation, denial of medical care, &#8220;using force or the threat of force&#8221;; &#8220;mock executions;&#8221; religious desecration in an intelligence context; &#8220;sensory deprivation&#8221;; &#8220;prolonged isolation&#8221;; &#8220;placing hoods or sacks over the heads of the individual;&#8221; &#8220;exploiting the phobias of the individual&#8221; and more. Basically, it clarifies that the entire parade of outside-the-Army-Field-Manual-on-Interrogation horrors during the Bush administration are criminal acts. We&#8217;ll see if this ever actually makes it to President Obama&#8217;s desk.<\/p>\n<p>The CIA declined to comment on pending legislation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas), the chairman of the House intelligence committee, introduced an amendment to the 2010 intelligence authorization bill imposing a 15-year criminal sentence on any &#8220;officer or employee of the intelligence community&#8221; who tortures a detainee. (Twenty years if the torture involves an &#8220;act of medical malfeasance&#8221;; life if the detainee dies.) Specifically, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}