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A load of shit huh? Yeah? You and yours won't address it because it's got you by the balls. Quit being such a crybaby.
It's simple. The Military Commissions Act and Bush's Executive Orders are laws. They authorize, to varying degrees, techniques that are torture.
To change those laws requires, by definition, legal changes (or, alternatively, having you stomp your feet and spit on a picture of George Bush dressed as a monkey outside the White House, which would fix it all instantaneously, but that goes without saying, so why aren't you there doing that instead of here?).