URGENT ACTION

FROM NRCAT:

Earlier this week we shared wonderful news – the Senate had passed H.R. 2082 (the Intelligence Authorization Conference Report) with Section 327, the anti-torture provision, intact. This great victory was due in part to the efforts of your organizations.

Unfortunately, however, the battle is not yet over. The President has already said that he plans to veto the bill rather than sign it into law. If he does so, he will repudiate the will of both houses of Congress and of the American people. Worse, he will keep us on an immoral and harmful path.

We know the President is strongly committed to the CIA interrogation program and that he is very likely to veto this bill. But, we think he should know that people of faith think what he’s doing is wrong. Call the White House at 202-456-1111, or to email the President at comments@whitehouse.gov to express their support for H.R. 2082. Tell the President that as people of faith we do not support the CIA interrogation program, that the United States cannot win the war on terror by abandoning the values that made us great, and that he can help return us to those values by signing H.R. 2082.

Sincerely,

Linda Gustitus, President, National Religious Campaign Against Torture
Richard Killmer, Executive Director, National Religious Campaign Against Torture

From NRCAT: Imminent vote on torture

Dear NRCAT Supporter:

NRCAT has just learned that the House may be voting as early as tomorrow, Wednesday, December 12, on legislation — the Intelligence Authorization Bill — that includes a provision that is very important to our goal.

The provision would require all federal agencies — including the CIA — to abide by the requirements of the Army Field Manual on Interrogations. The Army Field Manual does not allow torture (including waterboarding) or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. The President has threatened to veto the bill because of this provision.

Please email or call your Representative; urge them to SUPPORT THE ARMY FIELD MANUAL PROVISION IN THE INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION CONFERENCE REPORT and let them know how important passage of this provision is to you and to our country. You can reach your Representative by calling the House Switchboard at (202) 225-3121. Alternatively, you can click here to look up your Members’ direct lines and email addresses at by entering your zip code and then clicking on the names of your Members.

For your information: NRCAT recently sent a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey to ask him to appoint a Special Counsel to investigate the destruction of the CIA interrogation videotapes.

Thank you for your help and your commitment to end torture.

Sincerely,

Linda Gustitus, President
Rich Killmer, Executive Director

In Jordan “nobody asks”

CIA has had secret holding cell in Joran for past seven years. Prisoner treatment allegedly included more than just “holding.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2007/12/01/ST2007120100473.html?hpid=topnews

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http://tinyurl.com/2h8ruy