[kenavi]

McCain's "anti-torture" amendment does deserve a second look, wonder WHO he was trying to protect? Who could it be under investigation for leaking classified intel? At least now with that amendment they won't be subjected to "torture".

Did the "anti-torture" law affect one iota what law enforcement in this country can do to suspected criminals?

[Just mythoughts]

"Did the "anti-torture" law affect one iota what law enforcement in this country can do to suspected criminals?"

I do not know what McCain's law actually changed, but I am suspecting that there is more to McCain's law than originally appeared. Especially since it came out of nowhere after somebody did some big time leaking. Over a year + ago.

Now from what the President has said OBL's gang has been calling people that reside within the USA, now who would it be that would interrogate these individuals, citizens or not? Is there a connection to them and McCain's law? I do not know but seems a bit odd the fervor in which McCain pushed his law through, and totally ignored that tax increase that will go into effect Jan 1 for millions of Americans.

Further national security also includes energy security and McCain was not a happy camper to have ANWAR attached to anything like his law was.

[Casloy]

Did the "anti-torture" law affect one iota what law enforcement in this country can do to suspected criminals?

It depends on what you mean by torture. If torture is defined as any activity which puts pressure on a suspect to provide information, then it has affected it greatly. The issue is not torture as everyone thinks of torture, IE: pulling out fingernails, beatings, electric prods, etc. The issue is, can you use such methods such as sleep deprivation, continuous lights, threats of turning the individual over to countries that do torture, insinuation that things might go bad if the person doesn't talk? If those methods are outlawed the terrorists will never provide us with information.