Is Obama hurting the Democratic Party by not joining forces with Hilla

[Lissa]

I'm confused. You point out the same information I pointed you to - and yet you still claim that Congress should not legislate the use of torture as an interrogation technique for any Federal Agency. Do you really think it should be left up to the Executive branch to determine the laws of the land?

The information shows that Congress is an auditor of what CIA does and the Executive Branch, specifically the NSC, is the one that sets policy. The bill that Congress worked one would set policy which is not what they're supposed to do with the CIA, that's the NSC. What Congress really did with this bill is get the public to put pressure on the NSC to affect change on how CIA policy to be against torture (a good thing as torture serves no useful purpose for gaining accurate information).