President Obama today signed into law an updated defense authorization bill that includes a landmark provision reinforcing the United States’ end on the use of torture. Human Rights First notes, however, that other provisions in the bill will severely damage the president’s ability to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay by the end of his term in office. “The legislation is an land mark victory in the fight to reestablish a durable, bipartisan consensus against torture,” said Human Rights First’s Raha Wala. “Torture violated our laws and betrayed our ideals. Now, no amount of loophole lawyering will be able to bring us back to the dark side.” The legislation is supported by 12 of intelligence and interrogation professionals and retired generals and admirals , including Frank Anderson, a 26-year CIA veteran and former chief of the CIA’s Near East and South Asia Division. “After 9/11, we did many things out of fear and anger, incl...