Senate Votes to Prohibit CIA From Using Waterboarding

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Senate Votes to Prohibit CIA From Using Waterboarding

By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 13, 2008; 5:51 PM

The Senate voted today to prevent the CIA from using waterboarding and other coercive interrogation techniques that are not allowed under U.S. Army regulations.

The legislation, which was previously approved by the House, now goes to President Bush, who has previously threatened to veto the measure.

The move to ban coercive techniques at the CIA follows two weeks of public debate over the agency's use of waterboarding, a type of simulated drowning, on three al-Qaeda prisoners in 2002 and 2003.

It also comes in the same week that the Bush administration announced plans to try six prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for alleged involvement in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Five of the six were subjected to harsh CIA tactics, which included sleep deprivation, extremes of hot and cold and, in one case, waterboarding.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/13/AR2008021302888.html?hpid=topnews

[Swamp Rat]

1. And Insane McCain just flip flopped

[spanone]

9. he voted against torture before he voted for it...or some such shit

you've captured the essence

[L. Coyote]

2. REC #1 KICKing this

[Muttocracy]

3. on this he needs to be forced to veto it n/t

[Bobbieo]

6. Will there be enough votes to override his veto? Hope so!!!

Think every senator who voted agaisnt the bill should undergo the waterboardig technique to see for themselves if it can be considered a method of torture!!

[Muttocracy]

8. now that would be a good senate procedure rule... n/t

[AndyA]

4. Let the SOB veto it and explain again about how he's a compassionate

Christian man.

No man with compassion - no Christian - would ever support such a thing.

What a f*cking hypocrite this man is!

[tbyg52]

10. I'd buy a ticket for that

Maybe it'd be the straw that broke the camel's back with enough people. I've been hoping for that for a long time.

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. Nothing like shutting the barn door after the horse is gone.

[annabanana]

7. (51-to-45 vote)

Isn't it nice to know there are so many people in charge that are "ok" with waterboarding?

[katty]

11. bush: ok condi, now where's my veto stamp? stat!

[DrDan]

12. LIEberman and Ben Nelson (D-Husker) voted no

otherwise along party lines

[sjdnb]

13. I'll be impressed when there are full-fledged "Katy bar the doors"

investigations of the crimes by Bush & Co. Until then it's like barring the doors after the criminals have fled.

[WinkyDink]

14. Those 6 schlemiels in Gitmo? What we are doing is EVIL.