Detainee Treatment Act
On July 25, 2005 Senator John McCain — a POW and torture victim during the Vietnam War — submitted an amendment to a military spending bill, intended to restrict all US government interrogators from using interrogation techniques not authorized in the Army Field Manual.
On October 20, 2005 Vice President Dick Cheney met with McCain to try to convince him to agree that his amendment should only apply to military interrogators. Cheney wanted to continue to allow civilian interrogators, working for US intelligence agencies, to use more extended interrogation techniques. McCain did not agree.
McCain's amendment passed, and is now called the Detainee Treatment Act.
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