PRESIDENT BUSH SIGNS BILL SETTING FORTH RIGHTS OF DETAINEES AND CIA DURING INTERROGATION

Today, President George W. Bush signed the "miliary tribunal" bill. We have not read the legislation in its final form, unless it is identical to the version approved by the House of Representatives on September 29th (53 pages). So the answer to the following questions may be set forth in the bill as signed. In any event, the title of the legislation is misleading, because it fails to tell us that the law will provide a retroactive defense for some war crimes committed after September 11, 2001, and now; and it fails to tell us that the law provides for the protection of CIA agents whose interrogation techniques are questioned.

The questions are for Senators John McCain and John Warner; and for Representatives Pearce and Wilson, of New Mexico. The questions are these:

1. Under this legislation, is waterboarding permissible?

2. Same question regarding sleep deprivation?

Answers: [ ] Have no idea; and it does not matter.

[ ] Yes.

[ ] No.

[ ] Essentially, that matter is left to the discretion of
the President; and if he says "Yes," then that is the answer
and if he says "No," that is the answer.

[ ] Other:______________________________________________________.