President Bush today signed into law a controversial Bill that permits the tough interrogation of foreign terror suspects and smooths the way for Guantanamo Bay detainees to be tried before military commissions without any legal representation.
Signing the Bill, Mr Bush described it as a “vital tool” in the fight against terrorism, but civil liberty campaigners said that it would allow prisoners to be held indefinitely and sentenced to death on evidence beaten out of them. Officially the Military Commissions Act protects detainees from blatant abuses during questioning such as rape,

