[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 159 (Tuesday, December 13, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H11337]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       NO OUTSOURCING OF TORTURE

  (Mr. MARKEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. MARKEY. Mr. Speaker, we must prevent Vice President Cheney and 
CIA Director Goss from carving out a special exemption for the CIA to 
the McCain amendment barring torture, a Bush-Cheney-Goss EZ pass around 
the law. But we should also realize that even if we ban torture by U.S. 
Government agencies, the CIA is likely to increase the illegal practice 
of extraordinary rendition, where they seize or kidnap suspects and 
send them to countries like Syria or Uzbekistan which are likely to 
subject the prisoners to torture.
  The Secretary of State just flew around Europe trying to explain why 
the United States is continuing to snatch citizens off the streets of 
Italy and Germany and fly them on CIA planes to secret prisons where 
they may be tortured. Earlier this year, I attached an amendment to the 
defense authorization bill to stop this practice. If we want to shut 
down the fast lane for torturers, we need to adopt both the McCain 
amendment on torture and the Markey amendment barring the outsourcing 
of torture to countries that do torture around the world in the name of 
the United States of America and the CIA.

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