President Bush has vetoed legislation designed to specifically prohibit the CIA from waterboarding suspects. This is his first veto of 2008 and the ninth in the 7+ years of his presidency.
In December, former CIA agent John Kiriakou acknowledged that the CIA had tortured at least two suspects but now believes that waterboarding should be part of the "national debate." The Justice Department and the White House approved waterboarding as an "interogation technique" in 2002. Most analysts believe waterboarding violates Geneva Convention prohibitions against torture.
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We need Republcans so that we can have school vouchers. Hopefully it will help people like Brian learn how to speak, spell, enunciate and form a coherent thought process.
Hey Brian, this isn’t your Verizon cellphone. Learn how not to speak in text?
C
Hi, I don’t know if the USA need more or less Republicans, but I am sure of one thing, the world needs less tortures, wars and other violations of Human Rights. This veto is the latest proof that the current US Administration doesn’t give a damn about democracy, Human Rights, fighting evil and all the other lame justifications it gave to go to war. It is all about winning and by any mean possible.
Alphast,
I couldn’t disagree more except it is about winning. Winning and keeping our freedoms against an enemy that is beyond evil. We need tools like this to keep our soldiers and citizens safe from people who have vowed to do us harm. I applaud Bush for the veto.
C
I didn’t expect anything else…
But let’s face it, the average US or European citizen freedom is not at risk from the “enemy”. Our lives might indeed, but the risk (with or without torture) is insignificant from a risk management perspective. Our freedom is much more endangered by US administration policies (even in Europe). It is a sad fact that these policies have fallen in one of the oldest traps in History of republics: destroying what they were intended to prevent.
Our enemies are those, who are enemies of democracy.
The enemies of democracy are those, who dont keep democratic rules.
The people who dont keep democratic rules are those who uses or enables antindemocratic interrogations technic.
Walter
Does anyone (except Bush & Co)really believe that the famous “war on Terror” will be won because Bush & Co is vetoing the ban on torture? This is ridiculous, 1/there are more terrorists than ever in the world since the illegal war on Irak, and 2/ according to those applying torture, it has very seldom if not never, brought any valid information.