On October 5, 2005, the United States Senate voted 90 to 9 in favor of an amendment that would reinforce the ban on cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of detainees by making the Army Field Manual on Intelligence Interrogations binding interrogation policy for all those in military custody.
The Bush administration has asserted that the Geneva Convention and US legal prohibitions against torture don't apply to US actions outside of the United States.
The U.S. Senators that voted against this provision, and essentially in support of torture, are: