In the months after 9/11, a devastated nation passed a series of laws and instituted practices which many felt were fundamentally un-American. Rendition and torture, sometimes of innocent people, was carried out in the name of terrorist prevention. As a United States Senator, there is a bill you must vote on which will allow American citizens to be tried and convicted for future war crimes such as the ones committed at Abu Ghraib. Discuss how you will vote and why.
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