Democrats Tried to Criminalize National Security Yesterday. . . .

According to Gregory of Yardale at moonbattery.com:

While the country... well, actually, just the media... were distracted by the spectacle of the spoiled, petulant president at the "Health Care Summit" sneering at any substantive criticism of his expensive health care takeover as "talking points," Congressional Democrats were trying to make it effectively illegal to interrogate foreign terrorists.

An Amendment to National Security Bill authored by radical leftist congressman Jim McDermott of Washington would have made it a crime, punishable by fifteen years in prision, to use any interrogation technique a Muslim terrorist considered "degrading." (Radical Muslims consider even talking to infidels degrading.)

The Democrats' bill would prohibit -- with a penalty of 15 years' imprisonment -- the following tactics, among others:

•"Exploiting the phobias of the individual"

•Stress positions and the threatened use of force to maintain stress positions

•"Depriving the individual of necessary food, water, sleep, or medical care"

•Forced nudity

•Using military working dogs (i.e., any use of them -- not having them attack or menace the individual; just the mere presence of the dog if it might unnerve the detainee and, of course, "exploit his phobias")

•Coercing the individual to blaspheme or violate his religious beliefs (I wonder if Democrats understand the breadth of seemingly innocuous matters that jihadists take to be violations of their religious beliefs)

•Exposure to "excessive" cold, heat or "cramped confinement" (excessive and cramped are not defined)

•"Prolonged isolation"

•"Placing hoods or sacks over the head of the individual"

Sounds like a list of Barney Frank's fetishes to me.

The Safe School Czar approves of rougher stuff than that as part of a middle school sex curriculum.

I've often said that Democrats define "torture" as any discomfort a terrorist complains about. They just proved me right.