White House caves in, backs ban on torture

It’s done. The Bush administration has finally buckled to increasing political pressure and is now backing a ban on torture:

The White House and Senator John McCain have reached agreement on formally banning the torture or the degrading treatment of foreign terror suspects.
Mr McCain, once a prisoner of war in Vietnam, proposed the measure as an amendment to a military spending bill.

Both houses of Congress had passed the bill in defiance of President George W Bush’s threat to veto any legislation limiting interrogation tactics.

The White House had wanted an opt-out for CIA interrogators. BBC

Now about those secret installations?