"Risk intentional condemnation?"
It should guarantee condemnation, at the very least!
Anyone who signs on to this "freedom To Torture Bill" or compromises in any way, thus making torture lawful in the United States, should be tried for war crimes at the Hague, as such a compromise would prove that the U.S. is no longer capable of holding its own leaders accountable.
Guardian Unlimited Politics Special Reports Attorney general warns US on torture bill:
The attorney general warned the US at the weekend that its bill to try to limit its obligations under the Geneva convention while interrogating and trying detainees risked international condemnation.
Lord Goldsmith waded into the row after a Senate committee rejected the bill and backed alternative legislation proposed by Republican senator John McCain and supported by George Bush's former secretary of state, Colin Powell.
The attorney general's comments, in a lecture to lawyers in Chicago, signal an attempt by Britain to bring the US back in line with international law. The bill follows a US supreme court ruling that the Geneva convention's prohibitions on torture apply to al-Qaida members, which the Bush administration had denied.
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