On the heels of today’s torture hearings in a House Judiciary subcommittee, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the subcommittee chairman, and Rep. William Delahunt (D-MA) have introduced a bill to force all American interrogators to conform to the Geneva Conventions-compliant standards of the Army Field Manual on Interrogation (pdf). That would mean no waterboarding, no “cold cells,” no stress positions — none of that stuff that Malcolm Nance and Steve Kleinman testified doesn’t work anyway.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=179408