Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses.

Warner's "compromise" (approved by a Republican majority) authorized the President to establish permissible interrogation techniques and to "interpret the meaning and application" of international Geneva Convention standards so long as the coercion falls short of "serious" bodily or psychological injury. He is a veteran of World War II and one of only five serving in the Senate at the time of his retirement. He was in the Senate until January 3 2009.

He did not seek reelection in 2008 and has rejoined the law firm of Hogan Lovells where he worked before joining the United States Department of Defense. John William Warner (born February 18 1927) is an American Republican politician who served as Secretary of the Navy from 1972 to 1974 and as a five-term United States Senator from Virginia from January 2 1979 to January 3 2009. Warner was also the sixth husband to actress Elizabeth Taylor whom he married before being elected to the Senate.