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  • WAR AUTHORIZATION
  • PATRIOT ACT
  • RENDITION & TORTURE
Winning Issue » RENDITION & TORTURE


After 9/11, the White House authorized the CIA to engage in a program of extraordinary rendition - or the transfer without due process - of suspected terrorists to foreign governments for the purpose of detention and interrogation. Once there, detainees were subjected to



Polling Options

  • I oppose reforming current rendition and torture policy and wish to donate resources to the campaign committee of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA).
  • I support prohibiting an authorization for the use of military force, a declaration of war, or any similar Act pertaining to the authority of the President over the use of the U.S. Armed Forces from: 1.) Authorizing the apprehension or detention of any person except to the extent that the Constitution, the law of war, and otherwise applicable human rights law permits such apprehension or detention. 2.) Authorizing the detention without charge of any person apprehended or detained in the United States except as expressly provided by an Act of Congress. Declaring that the Authorization for Use of Military Force shall not constitute such an Act of Congress. 3.) Allowing a person to assert a violation of this Act as a claim or defense in a judicial proceeding and to obtain appropriate relief against a government. 4.) Repeals provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act for that require U.S. Armed Forces to hold in military custody pending disposition under the law of war a person who is captured in the course of hostilities authorized by the Authorization for Use of Military Force. And wish to donate resources to the campaign committee of Rep. Jerrold Nadler (NY) and/or to an advocate group currently working with this issue.


Winning Option

  • I support prohibiting an authorization for the use of military force, a declaration of war, or any similar Act pertaining to the authority of the President over the use of the U.S. Armed Forces from:

    1.) Authorizing the apprehension or detention of any person except to the extent that the Constitution, the law of war, and otherwise applicable human rights law permits such apprehension or detention.

    2.) Authorizing the detention without charge of any person apprehended or detained in the United States except as expressly provided by an Act of Congress. Declaring that the Authorization for Use of Military Force shall not constitute such an Act of Congress.

    3.) Allowing a person to assert a violation of this Act as a claim or defense in a judicial proceeding and to obtain appropriate relief against a government.

    4.) Repeals provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act for that require U.S. Armed Forces to hold in military custody pending disposition under the law of war a person who is captured in the course of hostilities authorized by the Authorization for Use of Military Force.

    And wish to donate resources to the campaign committee of Rep. Jerrold Nadler (NY) and/or to an advocate group currently working with this issue.
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Pledge Period - Opening Date
April 19, 2021
Pledge Period - Closing Date
April 25, 2021
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April 26, 2021


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