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House, Senate Agree On CIA Interrogation Limits Banning Waterboarding

AP   |  PAMELA HESS and ANNE FLAHERTY   |   December 6, 2007 11:33 AM

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House and Senate negotiators working on an intelligence bill have agreed to limit CIA interrogators to techniques approved by the military, which would effectively bar them from using such harsh methods as waterboarding, congressional aides said Wednesday.

Members of the House and Senate intelligence committees decided to include the ban while working out differences in their respective bills authorizing 2008 spending for intelligence programs, according to the aides, who spoke anonymously because the negotiations were private. Details of the bill are to be made public Thursday.

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- rollingdivision See Profile I'm a Fan of rollingdivision permalink

Let's just limit questioning to asking nicely.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:32 AM on 12/10/2007
- ajax2 See Profile I'm a Fan of ajax2 permalink

Senate, do you insist that the CIA be lawful, when GW will sign it out of law.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:21 PM on 12/07/2007
- ashabot See Profile I'm a Fan of ashabot permalink

One small step for humankind.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:35 PM on 12/06/2007
- abbiehoffmansghost See Profile I'm a Fan of abbiehoffmansghost permalink

If you really want to stop torture make it illegal for politicians to talk. I have a dream.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:25 PM on 12/06/2007
- Ramirez See Profile I'm a Fan of Ramirez permalink

Here is the video that goes along with the photo that illustrates this story.

It's some sort of street protest or performance art or something.

Make sure you check out the female interrogator. She is into her part, big time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaQ1Eryjq9I

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:50 PM on 12/06/2007
- research See Profile I'm a Fan of research permalink

Congress actually believes Bush will obey?
Enough lies, deception, torture and death!
Don't let the proof you should have impeached be WW III.

How many insults from BushCo to you and the entire American constitutional way of life does it take for you to impeach?

Hearings don't work.. You meet with arrogant obstruction every time. You and your subpoenas are laughed at and ignored.

Haven't you had enough? Aren't you tired of playing defense? Wouldn't you like to wipe that smug smirk off Bush and Cheneys faces?

In your hands, you have the impeachment bill 333.

Impeach Cheney. Executive privilege does not extend to impeachment. The Constitution forbids pardons for impeachment.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:27 PM on 12/06/2007
- gappytoofcondi See Profile I'm a Fan of gappytoofcondi permalink

What about restoration of habeous corpus?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:06 PM on 12/06/2007
- Tankan See Profile I'm a Fan of Tankan permalink

Then when we get behind closed doors.......................!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:45 PM on 12/06/2007
- Grunty1 See Profile I'm a Fan of Grunty1 permalink

So where is the punishment for breaking the law?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:28 PM on 12/06/2007
- imusintheevening See Profile I'm a Fan of imusintheevening permalink

The House and Senate are irrelevant to this administration, without the balls to bring up impeachment they have admitted defeat and we all know it.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:51 PM on 12/06/2007
- lungfish See Profile I'm a Fan of lungfish permalink

Who cares what the House and Senate agree to?
Obviously the Cheney administration doesn't.

The Cheney administration will just do it anyway after telling Congress to go fuck itself. They were clearly told that it wasn't ok to waterboard and torture before and so they had their little toady, Gonzales, come up with a "secret" legal opinion to the contrary and did it anyway...

And Congress didn't do shit. They are all spineless losers. Kinda like Joe Biden saying that if Dubya attacks Iran Joe will vote for impeachment... whatever. The time to do it is now, enough already! These creeps need to be stopped.....

Why not write them an email and tell them so?
AmericanVoices@mail.house.gov

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:12 PM on 12/06/2007
- fourex See Profile I'm a Fan of fourex permalink

Why keep the CIA and WH within the law? GW, it's time for another signing statement.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:51 AM on 12/06/2007
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