Senate Votes to Ban Waterboarding
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate voted Wednesdy to prohibit the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects despite President Bush's threat to veto any measure that limits the agency's interrogation techniques.
The 19 approved interrogation techniques in the military field manual include "
good cop/bad cop," sounds like something one would play in the bedroom"
false flag"—making prisoners think they are in the custody of another countryoh NO, anything but THAT....—
and the separation of a prisoner from other prisoners for up to 30 days at a time.
wow, what a punishment...
It prohibits military interrogators from hooding prisoners or putting duct tape across their eyes. They may not be stripped naked or forced to perform or mimic sexual acts. They may not be beaten, electrocuted, burned or otherwise physically hurt. They may not be subjected to hypothermia or mock executions. It does not allow food, water and medical treatment to be withheld, and dogs may not be used in any aspect of interrogation.
They can capture our people, civilians included, put a hood on them and saw their head off while video taping....but we can't put a HOOD over their head? We can't withhold food from them for a couple of days? Why don't we just check them into a Holiday Inn and give them room service hoping they cough up some intel on their own terms. Maybe I watch too much 24 but when you capture major players that may have intel that could lead to more arrests or the stopping of an attack we need the information in a timely manner. The more time goes by the less useful the intel is. Imagine the scenario where there was a dirty bomb going to be set off in one of our more populated cities and we caught someone that had the intel we need to stop it....what would YOU DO? Senate Votes to Ban Waterboarding