Religious Groups Mobilize to Defeat Bush Prisoner Policies
By William Fisher
t r u t h o u t | Report
Tuesday 14 August 2007
The Bush administration's policies for treatment of prisoners in the so-called global war on terror are being challenged by a consistently underreported segment of America's "faith communities" - long dominated by right-wing televangelists such as James Dobson, Jerry Falwell and Pat Roberts.
A coalition of more than 125 Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh and other religious organizations - collectively known as NRCAT, the National Religious Campaign Against Torture - is conducting an increasingly robust and sophisticated lobbying and grassroots action campaign to override an executive order by President Bush that permits the Central Intelligence Agency to use undefined "alternative interrogation techniques" in questioning alleged terror suspects.
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t r u t h o u t | Report
Tuesday 14 August 2007
The Bush administration's policies for treatment of prisoners in the so-called global war on terror are being challenged by a consistently underreported segment of America's "faith communities" - long dominated by right-wing televangelists such as James Dobson, Jerry Falwell and Pat Roberts.
A coalition of more than 125 Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh and other religious organizations - collectively known as NRCAT, the National Religious Campaign Against Torture - is conducting an increasingly robust and sophisticated lobbying and grassroots action campaign to override an executive order by President Bush that permits the Central Intelligence Agency to use undefined "alternative interrogation techniques" in questioning alleged terror suspects.
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