McCain Detainee Amendment

Main article: Periodic Report of the United States of America to the United Nations Committee Against Torture The United States government, through the State Department makes periodic reports to the United Nations Committee Against Torture. In October 2005, the report focused on pretrial detention of suspects in the War on Terror, including those held in Guantanamo Bay and Afghanistan. This particular Periodic Report is significant as the first official response of the U.S. government to allegations tha ...

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Lt CMDR McCain served with the VA-163 Saints on board the USS Oriskany. On October 26, 1966 the mis-handling of a flare resulted in a deck fire while conducting strike operations in the Gulf of Tonkin. 44 men lost their lives, including 24 pilots. Later in 1967, he was shot down over Vietnam, and was held as a prisoner of war in Hanoi for five-and-a-half years, mostly in the infamous Hanoi Hilton. Later in life, McCain would quip that, "Do not call me a 'war hero'...I am anything but! The fact that I was incompetent enough to get shot ...

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McCain lives with his second wife Cindy Hensley McCain in Phoenix. She is the chair of the large Anheuser-Busch beer and liquor distributor Hensley Distributing founded by her father, [10]. Cindy suffered a stroke in April 2004 due to high blood pressure, but appears to have made a full recovery. [11] McCain is five feet seven inches tall. McCain is a member of the Episcopal Church. McCain has been treated for recurrent skin cancer, including melanoma, in 1993, 2000, and 2002. Some media sources have suggested that this may be linked to his heavy sun exposure in Vietnam. Since then he has become active ...

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According to an article published in the October 15, 2004 New York Times 28 soldiers were under investigaation. [3] Some of the soldiers were reservists in the 377th Military Police Company. The 377th was under the command of Captain Christopher M. Beiring. The rest were in the 519th Military Intelligence Battalion. They were under the command of Captain Carolyn A. Wood. As of November 15, 2005 charges had been laid against 15 soldiers. See also:

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McCain is not afraid to appear in various entertainment mediums. He was the center of controversy concerning his cameo appearance in 2005 summer movie Wedding Crashers. While his cameo was short, he has been criticized for appearing in an R-rated movie with several scenes of brief nudity. Matt Drudge of Drudge Report, while commenting on McCain's appearance, referred to the film as a "boob raunch fest." McCain, during an appearance on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, joked about "working with boobs all the time in Washington." Mc ...

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The abuse and deaths took place at the military detention center known as the Bagram Collection Point (B.C.P.), which had been built by the Soviets as an aircraft machine shop during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1980-1989). B.C.P. is a concrete-and-sheet-metal facility that was retrofitted with wire pens and wooden isolation cells. The B.C.P. is part of the Bagram Air Base at the antique city of Bagram near Charikar in Parvan, Afghanistan. ...

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Mr. Habibullah died on December 4, 2002 by several U.S. soldiers. They hit the chained man with so-called "peroneal strikes," or severe blows to the side of the leg above the knee (incapacitates the leg by hitting the common peroneal nerve). According to the New York Times: By Dec. 3, Mr. Habibullah's reputation for defiance seemed to make him an open target. [He had taken at least 9 peroneal strikes from two M.P.'s for being "noncompliant and combative."] ... When Sgt. James P. Boland saw Mr. Habib ...

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Amendment 1977 would amend the defense appropriations bill for 2005 passed by the United States House of Representatives. The amendment was introduced to the Senate by Senator John McCain (R Arizona) on October 3, 2005 as S.AMDT.1977. The amendment was co-sponsored by Senators Lindsey Graham, Chuck Hagel, Gordon H. Smith, Susan M. Collins Lamar Alexander, Richard Durbin, Carl Levin, John Warner, Lincoln Chafee, John E. Sununu, and Ken Salazar. On ...

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Vice President Dick Cheney has proposed that the CIA be exempt from the Amendment. On November 2, 2005, the New York Times reported that the administration of President George W. Bush is sharply divided on the issue and are debating "whether a new set of Defense Department standards for handling terror suspects should adopt language from the Geneva Conventions prohibiting 'cruel,' 'humiliating' and 'degrading' treatment. Proponents argue that this language would move the U.S. detention policies closer to international law, would prevent further abuse of detainees and build ...

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