Your answer puzzles me. I'm not talking about the 96 act, I am talking about the attempts to override it a few years ago.
I was wrong to call it an era...but I am talking about 2002, prior to Gonzales being named AG. Gonzales and the Justice Department claimed bush's wartime powers superseded anti-torture laws and treaties.
The released memos are easy to find. It is not that there aren't laws...it's that this group wrote legalese to claim that the rules did not apply and skews what qualifies as torture.
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