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Bush to veto bill banning harsh interrogations
U.S. President George Bush has announced that he will be vetoing a bill that would ban the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods such as waterboarding.
Bush said in his weekly radio address on Saturday that the legislation would take away "one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror."
Jennifer Daskal, senior counter-terrorism counsel at Human Rights Watch, told The Associated Press that Bush "will go down in history as the torture president" for defying Congress.
"The Bush administration continues to insist that CIA and other non-military interrogators are not bound by the military rules and has reportedly given CIA interrogators the green light to use a range of so-called enhanced interrogation techniques, including prolonged sleep deprivation, painful stress positions, and exposure to extreme cold," Daskal said.
The bill passed through the House of Representatives and the Senate in February. It was to set new guidelines for intelligence gathering, including limits on interrogation techniques.
Its supporters say that the bill will help the U.S. regain its moral authority in the international playing field. The U.S. military is currently banned from using such techniques.
Both Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, who are running for the Democratic presidential nomination are in favour of the torture ban. Sen. John McCain, the presumed Republican presidential candidate, says that waterboarding is torture but is not supporting the bill.
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It should be made law that the president of any country that endorses torture should have to go through these torture practices himself first... without mercy!!!
Bush to veto bill banning harsh interrogations
U.S. President George Bush has announced that he will be vetoing a bill that would ban the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods such as waterboarding.
Bush said in his weekly radio address on Saturday that the legislation would take away "one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror."
Jennifer Daskal, senior counter-terrorism counsel at Human Rights Watch, told The Associated Press that Bush "will go down in history as the torture president" for defying Congress.
"The Bush administration continues to insist that CIA and other non-military interrogators are not bound by the military rules and has reportedly given CIA interrogators the green light to use a range of so-called enhanced interrogation techniques, including prolonged sleep deprivation, painful stress positions, and exposure to extreme cold," Daskal said.
The bill passed through the House of Representatives and the Senate in February. It was to set new guidelines for intelligence gathering, including limits on interrogation techniques.
Its supporters say that the bill will help the U.S. regain its moral authority in the international playing field. The U.S. military is currently banned from using such techniques.
Both Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, who are running for the Democratic presidential nomination are in favour of the torture ban. Sen. John McCain, the presumed Republican presidential candidate, says that waterboarding is torture but is not supporting the bill.
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It should be made law that the president of any country that endorses torture should have to go through these torture practices himself first... without mercy!!!
