US Senate votes to ban waterboarding
Richmond Palladium-Item
02/13/08
Congress on Wednesday moved to prohibit the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects, despite President Bush’s threat to veto any measure that limits the agency’s interrogation techniques. The prohibition was contained in a bill authorizing intelligence activities for the current year, which the Senate approved on a 51-45 vote. It would restrict the CIA to the 19 interrogation techniques outlined in the Army field manual...
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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Bush Vows to Veto Interrogation Limits
David M. Herszenhorn, of The New York Times, reports: "The Senate voted Wednesday to ban waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods that have been used by the Central Intelligence Agency against high-level terrorism suspects. The vote, following House passage of the measure in December, set up a confrontation with President Bush, who has threatened to veto it."
https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021408M.shtml
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https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation
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02/13/08
Congress on Wednesday moved to prohibit the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects, despite President Bush’s threat to veto any measure that limits the agency’s interrogation techniques. The prohibition was contained in a bill authorizing intelligence activities for the current year, which the Senate approved on a 51-45 vote. It would restrict the CIA to the 19 interrogation techniques outlined in the Army field manual...
https://tinyurl.com/yo39yl
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Bush Vows to Veto Interrogation Limits
David M. Herszenhorn, of The New York Times, reports: "The Senate voted Wednesday to ban waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods that have been used by the Central Intelligence Agency against high-level terrorism suspects. The vote, following House passage of the measure in December, set up a confrontation with President Bush, who has threatened to veto it."
https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021408M.shtml
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=waterboarding
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=veto
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=terror+suspects
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+M.+Herszenhorn
rudkla - 14. Feb, 14:12
