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Bush's Anti-Torture Veto Stands

By Ptowns

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An attempt by the House of Representatives to override President Bush's veto of a ban on enhanced interrogation techniques failed yesterday. The bill would have limited the CIA and other US agencies to interrogation techniques found in the Army's field manual. This would have prevented the use of waterboarding and induced hypothermia. President Bush cited terrorism concerns in vetoing the bill. The veto leaves the following techniques, among others, potentially available to the CIA and other agencies: hooding prisoners or putting duct tape across their eyes, stripping prisoners naked, forcing prisoners to perform or mimic sexual acts, subjecting them to hypothermia or mock executions, and withholding food, water and medical treatment. All of these acts are prohibited in the Army's field manual.

Full post as published by International Law Blog on March 12, 2008 (boomark / email).

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