sawdust
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The constitution doesn't address torture. The Geneva Convention and a couple other agreements that the US is a signatory to prohibit torture of soldiers in time of war. There is no uniform standard protecting combatants who don't represent a nation state. The reason for this is that an agreement is reached between nations who are signatories, not loosely defined groups bound by an ideology and not represented by a government. That's why Feinstine and McCain speak in terms of American values when addressing the nonsense that the Senate Democrats authored. There is no defining law protecting enemy combatant terrorists unless they are officially charged in our criminal justice system. If they are charged with a crime, they are protected.