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Posted on 02/13/2008 3:20:36 PM PST by SmithL
WASHINGTON, (AP) -- 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. That manual prohibits waterboarding, a method that makes an interrogation subject feel he is drowning.
The House had approved the measure in December. Wednesday's Senate vote set up a confrontation with the White House, where Bush has promised to veto any bill that restricts CIA questioning.
Arguing for such restrictions, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., said the use of harsh tactics would boomerang on the United States.
"Retaliation is the way of the world. What we do to others, they will do to us — but worse," Rockefeller said. "This debate is about more than legality. It is also about morality, the way we see ourselves ... and what we represent to the world."
The legislation bars the CIA from using waterboarding, sensory deprivation or other harsh coercive methods to break a prisoner who refuses to answer questions. Those practices were banned by the military in 2006.
CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden said last week that current law and court decisions, including the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, cast doubt on whether waterboarding would be legal now. Hayden prohibited its use in CIA interrogations in 2006; it has not been used since 2003, he said.
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I wonder which 51 Senators were willing to give Aid and Comfort to America’s enemies.
Is this the McCain-Reid bill?
Funny, but many who are now voting against waterboarding were briefed on it back in ‘02, and gave it the go ahead.
I watched a little of this today; McCain voted NO; and if the bobsey twins from Maine (collins and snowe) and stuck with the rest of the republicans, the vote would have failed. But, the girls voted with the democrats. Lieberman also voted NO.
That is all I remember from watching.
The RATS want 2 things:
1) To identify any PUBBIE who voted against them as supporting Torture;
2) To make GW veto it and then let the MSM Hang him!
Yeah. Sure. Just like whatever we were doing before 9/11 boomeranged on us. What were we doing before 9/11 again? The Senate goes into clown mode again.
"Retaliation is the way of the world. What we do to others, they will do to us — but worse," Rockefeller said. "This debate is about more than legality. It is also about morality, the way we see ourselves ... and what we represent to the world."
What breathtaking stupidity.
All that being said, I don't think our national security depends on whether we waterboard or not. There are a whole lot of ways to skin a cat.
We have to be concerned with the possibility that we fail to sufficiently interrogate captured enemy and thereby create conditions where that enemy can kill our citizens, our soldiers, and maybe even members of the Senate ~ I'm still struggling with that one ~ should the Senate be protected?
We have to be concerned with the possibility that we fail to sufficiently interrogate captured enemy and thereby create conditions where that enemy can kill our citizens, our soldiers, and maybe even members of the Senate ~ I'm still struggling with that one ~ should the Senate be protected?
At this point I don’t think GW gives a $hit.
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