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The McCain amendment passed 90-9 in the Senate, yet Bush still threatens a veto. Why is Congress even listening to him? 90-9 is WAY over the two-thirds majority required to override his veto.
Let's see how the vote in the House goes. Something tells me plenty of Republicans there will "cross the aisle" and vote for the McCain amendment seeing as how all of them are up for re-election in less than a year.
The fact of the matter is, getting the McCain amendment passed is the easy part in the War On Torture. The hard part, as referenced in the excellent New Yorker article linked by Mr. Follman, is in getting the Justice Department (led by pro-torture Alberto Gonzales) to bring forth prosecutions.
