Retroactive immunity in the torture - detainee compromise

In the "compromise" (details in the next post) there is also this.

They also agreed that past violations of the Geneva Conventions, an international treaty barring degrading and humiliating treatment of detainees, would not result in criminal or civil legal action.

The President of the United States ordered black letter war crimes to be committed, and now it has been made retroactively legal by his party.

This is the stuff of dictators. Imagine if Saddam had passed this law, or Noriega, or the Chinese....