Some people have claimed that there was no need for the McCain Amendment on the grounds that, except for the supposedly isolated incidents at Abu Ghraib, we have not used torture as a policy. Just to set the record straight, we have. This is from factcheck.org, which is the same site that debunked Fahrenheit 911 and the Bush "AWOL" claims, so it has no political agenda. I warn you, however, that though it is all text, what it describes is deeply disturbing. The tactics that have been used at Guantanamo Bay are shameful beyond words. Here are the grim facts about what Cheney, Gonzales and others have been authorizing:

http://www.factcheck.org/article365.html

Amnesty International was right on target about this one.