Senate Panel Bucks White House, Backs Anti-Torture Measure

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AFP reports:

A US Senate panel rejected President George W. Bush’s plan to relax standards on treatment of terror suspects, instead backing a substitute plan offering greater rights protections to “war on terror” detainees.

In a stinging rebuke to the US president, the Senate Armed Services Committee voted 15 to nine in favor of a bill drafted by Republican chairman John Warner.

“Stinging” rebuke. Get it? Torture humor.

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