Joe Lieberman: “Again, I thank my friend from New Hampshire, but I want to go back to something I said earlier. We have described the…”

“Again, I thank my friend from New Hampshire, but I want to go back to something I said earlier. We have described the purpose of this amendment--what I call the due process we have put into it, the mandate that it comply with existing international norms and treaties, and, obviously, to comply with our law. I want to say to my colleague that it is certainly not my intention--and I ask my colleague is it her intention--that any of the measures we are authorizing--the interrogation tactics for the worst of the terrorist detainees--should or could equal what is conventionally known as torture? In other words, we are not attempting to legalize torture with this amendment.”