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 Commentary:

Amnesty says: 

By signing the Military Commissions Act, President Bush is continuing to undermine basic principles of justice and creating a climate in which more human rights violations will occur. The only way of providing security for all and redress for the victims of terrorism is by delivering real justice.

The Act, passed by US Congress in late September, has turned bad executive policy into bad domestic law.

Amnesty International had repeateadly called on Congress to reject the Military Commissions Act in its entirety. The organization will now campaign for its repeal It fully expects the constitutionality of this legislation to be challenged in the courts.

In the "war on terror", the US administration has resorted to secret detention, enforced disappearance, prolonged incommunicado detention, indefinite detention without charge, arbitrary detention, and torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

Thousands of detainees remain in indefinite military detention in US custody in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay. Congress has failed these detainees and their families.

The Military Commissions Act contravenes human rights principles.

 Christian Science Monitor says:

  Bush’s policy on torture hurts our soldiers. Last week, Congress surrendered to Bush’s "program" of "alternative interrogation methods" (read: torture). While Bush claimed "We do not torture" last month, his ongoing support for harsh tactics that amount to it heightens the risk that our soldiers will be tortured if taken captive - a distinct and dire likelihood as Iraq deteriorates into civil war and Afghanistan tips back into chaos.

Moreover, torture is immoral, emphatically not an American value, hurtful of our relations with the world, and illegal, as the Supreme Court effectively ruled in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld this June.