HR 2082 Torture veto?

I just sent this out to my friends, family and some people from my church:

Hi All :

In addition to prayers, I believe some phone calls and emails are needed to influence President Bush's position on maintaining his current policy on torture. He plans to veto this bill which in part would require that CIA interrogators follow the rules the Army already has against torture.

http://www.votesmart.org/issue_keyvote_detail.php?cs_id=16703&can_id=6382
" Mandates that no person in the custody or within the control of an element of the intelligence community, regardless of that individual’s physical location or nationality, shall be “subject to any treatment or technique of interrogation not authorized by the United States Army Field Manual on Human Intelligence Collector Operations” (Sec. 327)."

More background:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/february/23.32.html?start=1
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/02/hbc-90002305

I pray, we pray, for forgiveness for what we have done - but also for what we have LEFT UNDONE. We are blessed to live in a country where we still have input into its decisions. This may be small input but whatever - - individually or together we must say what we believe!! I believe torture is morally wrong and the people in government who represent me (Senators, Congressman, President) have heard my small plea.

Sincerely,

L

Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:05:02 -0500
From: nrcatlist@nrcat.org
To: ___
Subject: Major victory and please contact the White House

TORTURE IS A MORAL ISSUE

To Supporters of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture

Dear Friends:

We have good news. Earlier this week, on a 51-46 vote, the Senate passed important anti-torture legislation that would prohibit all U.S. intelligence agencies, including the CIA, from engaging in torture or other so-called "harsh" interrogation techniques. This bill has already passed the House of Representatives and now it only needs the President's signature to become law.

This is an enormous victory, and it is in part due to your efforts and the efforts of NRCAT. By emailing and calling your Senators, you made it clear to them that the American people expect Congress to take a clear stand against torture.

Unfortunately, however, the President has already said that he plans to veto the bill rather than sign it into law. If he does so, he will repudiate the will of both houses of Congress and of the American people. Worse, he will keep us an immoral and destructive path.

We ask you to call the White House at 202-456-1111, or to email the President at comments@whitehouse.gov to express your support for H.R. 2082 (the Intelligence Authorization bill). Tell the President that we cannot win the war on terror by abandoning the values that made us great, and that he can help return us to those values by signing H.R. 2082.

Sincerely,

Linda Gustitus, President, NRCAT
Richard Killmer, Executive Director, NRCAT