Action Alert: Major victory and please contact the White House

TORTURE IS A MORAL ISSUE

To Supporters of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture

Dear Friends:

We have good news.  Earlier this week, on a 51-46 vote, the Senate passed important anti-torture legislation that would prohibit all U.S. intelligence agencies, including the CIA, from engaging in torture or other so-called "harsh" interrogation techniques.  This bill has already passed the House of Representatives and now it only needs the President's signature to become law. 

This is an enormous victory, and it is in part due to your efforts and the efforts of NRCAT.  By emailing and calling your Senators, you made it clear to them that the American people expect Congress to take a clear stand against torture.

Unfortunately, however, the President has already said that he plans to veto the bill rather than sign it into law.  If he does so, he will repudiate the will of both houses of Congress and of the American people.  Worse, he will keep us an immoral and destructive path.

We ask you to call the White House at 202-456-1111, or to email the President at  comments@whitehouse.gov to express your support for H.R. 2082 (the Intelligence Authorization bill).  Tell the President that we cannot win the war on terror by abandoning the values that made us great, and that he can help return us to those values by signing H.R. 2082.

Sincerely,

Linda Gustitus, President, NRCAT
Richard Killmer, Executive Director, NRCAT