As Pete caught, I missed some parts of that wonderful bill. I read the html version, which was broken up in different sections without making that part clear, so that I could cut and paste (not an option from PDF). Anyway, thought you'd like to see this part as well:
SEC. 6. IMPLEMENTATION OF TREATY OBLIGATIONS.
(3) INTERPRETATION BY THE PRESIDENT-
(A) As provided by the Constitution and by this section, the President has the authority for the United States to interpret the meaning and application of the Geneva Conventions and to promulgate higher standards and administrative regulations for violations of treaty obligations which are not grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions.
This, again, is crap. As I mentioned in a recent post, the Constitution provides no such authority to the President. Samuel Alito made it up when working for Reagan, and Bush uses it to consolidate power, ignore laws, and treat the Constitution as an airsick bag.
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