John Warner in Our Endangered Values, by Jimmy Carter

On Homeland Security: Strenuous opposition to prohibiting prisoner harsh treatment

Senator John McCain, who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam, has criticized the way detainees have been treated by US forces, and he, Armed Forces Committee Chairman John Warner, and other Republican senators have proposed legislation that would prohibit the US military from engaging in "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" of detainees, or from hiding prisoners from the Red Cross, and would set uniform standards for interrogating anyone detained by the Defense Department. These powerful Republican senators have quoted comments from 15 top-ranking military officers: "The abuse of prisoners hurts America's cause in the war on terror, endangers US service members who might be captured by the enemy, and is anathema to the values Americans have held dear for generations." Source: Our Endangered Values, by Jimmy Carter, p.131-132 Sep 26, 2006

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