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Processing of those claims in a way that would conform with the youngtown a deal of the congress and president acting together in unison. senator mccain and graham put together legislature that torture was unacceptable under u.s. law and the cruel and inhumane treatment was -- >> i know from the document you worked on the graham effort. >> yes. >> for example, a self-assessment you wrote is that you helped coordinate the effort on the graham amendment and in consultation with dod and others. >> that's right. i sure did and proud of it because we managed to come up with a bipartisan bill that

80 or meaybe 0990 votes, i don' remember, that, one, confirmed this country's commitment to avoid cruel and unusual punishment and on how guantanamo detainees should be -- >> except the conclusion that we come away with is that when the bill on the mccain amendment was about to be voted on, you forwarded press articles explaining what having these two provisions together mant. that w -- maer -- meant. that was the mccain amendment and the graham amendment, which

Mccain amendment and the resolution on the other side says. it says change the momentum on the ground. >> but mccain lost the election in '08. he's not the president. >> it was kerry this morning reacting to reaction to the mccain/graham amendment that was added to the senate resolution who was saying this is going to be unbelievably small. >> unbelievably small. >> that's for the purpose of stopping the hemorrhaging of democrats that was on the verge of occurring. they thought the senate resolution provided for a much wider war. to give you an idea of the political appeal of this, something i...