3 more Republican-gate SCANDALS !! - Republicans BLOCK TORTURE investigation

[Doug Bashford]

Republicans BLOCK TORTURE investigation

==========
Twenty-five CIA operatives have been charged with kidnapping.

==========
Gee, what's this? Three more sleazy Republican-gate scandals
this week? Who can keep up?

Anybody remember Libbeygate or Albertogate?
What's that? Like 100 Republican-gates?

And the Dems have how many? ...A guy with cash in his freezer?

=================


Saturday, December 15, 2007

==========
Twenty-five CIA operatives have been charged in Milan with
kidnapping.
==========
"We are stunned that Bush's justice department would move to
block our investigation," the joint leaders of the House
Intelligence Committee said.
==========

Republicans Stop Bill To Ban Waterboarding

CBS News, NY - 9 hours ago

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/14/national/main3621016.shtml?source=mostpop_story
(CBS) (CBS/AP) Senate Republicans blocked a bill Friday that
would restrict the interrogation methods the CIA can use against
terrorism suspects.
The bill would require the CIA to adhere to the Army's
field manual on interrogation, which bans waterboarding, mock
executions and other harsh interrogation methods.
The interrogation procedure, which is recognized as a
form of torture by making the subject think he's drowning, is
banned by international law. It has been used by CIA
interrogators on terrorism suspects, or by those to whom U.S.
prisoners have been sent via rendition flights.
It was recently learned that the CIA ordered the destruction
of videotapes of interrogations in which detainees were
reportedly subjected to waterboarding and other harsh measures.
Investigation timeline, the chain of command, POW rules,
global mistreatment of prisoners and video reports. Detainees on
trial, photos and a history ...

==========
Judge Urged Not to Ask About CIA Tapes


http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hyL3au-RZxEcch2P9ymXaJ9mroogD8THULS00
The Associated Press - 5 hours ago
Bush administration urged the federal court not to look into the
tapes' destruction.
WASHINGTON (AP)

 

[princeandy]

"Doug Bashford" <playing@home.edu> wrote in message
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>
> Republicans BLOCK TORTURE investigation
>
> ==========
> Twenty-five CIA operatives have been charged with kidnapping.

TO SEE WHAT EXACTLY WE ARE TALKING ABOUT,





"ElParedon" <serwad@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> w w w . h a a r e t z . c o m
> Last update - 01:18 15/06/2007
> The twilight zone / 'Now you are paralyzed, as we
> promised'
> By Gideon Levy
>
> "We have to make you do a little sports," the Shin Bet
> interrogator said, launching four successive days of
> questioning accompanied by brutal physical torture.
> The result: Luwaii Ashqar can no longer stand on his
> feet. He sits in his wheelchair, dressed in a
> fashionable quasi-military suit, super-elegant, new
> Caterpillar-brand shoes on his paralyzed feet.
>
> "I love this color," he says about his uniform. "It's
> the color of the soldiers who came to arrest me for
> the interrogation that did all this to me."
>
> His smile is captivating, his Hebrew rich and
> incisive. He is a young man whose world fell apart. He
> entered prison sound of body and mind and emerged a
> broken man. For four days and four nights nonstop, he
> says, he was interrogated and subjected to torture of
> the most brutal kind. The result is the person we see
> before us in the wheelchair, in the elegant home high
> in the village of Saida, north of Tul Karm, which was
> placed at his disposal by a friend after he was
> released from Israeli prison a month ago.
>
> Was there a judgment by the High Court of Justice?
> There was. It banned precisely the types of torture he
> underwent: the "banana posture," the "shabah" (body
> stretching with hands tied to a chair), "invisible"
> blows and the "frog posture" (being forced to stand
> for hours on the toes in a crouching position) - all
> the way to a vicious kick to his chest that bent his
> body backward while he was tied to a chair with his
> arms and legs, and which was the probable cause of the
> partial paralysis of his legs.
>
> Throwing up with the vomit entering his nostrils,
> losing consciousness and being given only saltwater to
> drink, relieving himself in his pants, not sleeping or
> resting - all of that for four consecutive days and
> nights.
>
> What does the interrogator Maimon tell his children
> when he goes home? What do Eldad and Sagiv tell their
> wives about their daily labors before they turn in?
> That they tortured another helpless prisoner until
> they turned him into a cripple? That they beat this
> charming young man brutally and that at the end of the
> interrogation he was tried for only marginal offenses?
> And where is the Supreme Court, which in 1999
> prohibited precisely the chain of torture that Luwaii
> Sati Ashqar, 30, who was married three years ago,
> underwent in the Kishon detention facility?
>
> Ashqar is not alone. The Public Committee Against
> Torture in Israel has just issued a new report
> containing the testimonies of nine torture victims
> (English version: http://www.stoptorture.org.il/eng/
> ). As the authors of the shocking report say, the
> testimonies "paint a dismal picture in which can be
> discerned various categories of secret-keeping
> collaborators, who, in keeping silent, protect the
> [Shin Bet] system of torture." ...
>
> On the wall is a picture, a fine drawing of a kneeling
> prisoner, his head between his knees. The caption: "I
> am in the darkness of the prison, living on your
> memory. I am far from you, lying in my bed, my spirit
> cruising your land all night. God will release all the
> prisoners, the strong will triumph."
>
> Ashqar is sitting in his wheelchair, his left leg
> completely enclosed in a cast, his right leg shaking
> nonstop. When he tries to get up and lean on his
> crutches, he threatens to topple over. "I was married
> in 2004, and I started to work in aluminum in the
> village to provide for my new household. On April 22,
> 2005, at 2:30 A.M., the soldiers came and started to
> throw grenades and to shout for everyone in the house
> to go outside. They blindfolded me with whatever they
> use and handcuffed me. I was taken in a jeep to prison
> and I was examined by an army doctor. He looked over
> my body - no operations, doesn't take medication, no
> illnesses. Again I was taken in a military jeep, this
> time to Kishon. 'Yehuda, incoming,' the warder said
> and transferred me to the interrogation office. They
> opened my eyes: Good morning. An excellent morning.
> One of the interrogators, Maimon, told me: I am
> responsible for your file. What file? The one you were
> arrested for. This is the major, and this tall guy is
> the colonel, this is Sagiv and this is Eldad. Eight
> interrogators.
>
> "They said: We have no time, it will soon be our
> Passover and you have to finish everything in a short
> time. Finish what? You have to tell us what you have.
> I don't have anything to tell you. I begged. They
> said: We know all that nonsense. We are talking about
> security. Plans for terrorist attacks at Passover. I
> said: I don't understand what you are talking about.
> They said: The suicide bomber was at your place. What
> suicide bomber?
>
> "After two hours of talking they said to me: If you
> don't give everything you have, we will have to take
> it by a different way. What is the different way? Did
> you hear of a military interrogation? You might leave
> here with your body battered or crippled. I was taken
> to a military interrogation. Here you pray to God that
> you will die, they said, but we won't give you that.
> We will let you die only after you spill out what we
> are looking for. He gave me a prison uniform and I
> told him that if I was going to die, I preferred my
> own clothes.
>
> "They sat me down on a square chair without a back,
> which was attached to the floor and had sharp metal
> ends [sticking up]. My legs were tied to the legs of
> the chair with metal cuffs and my hands were tied
> behind my back with metal cuffs. One interrogator sat
> behind me and the other in front of me. The
> interrogator opposite me said: We have to give you a
> little sports, so you will be able to hold out in the
> military interrogation. The sports was that they
> pushed me backward by the chest, a backward
> somersault, and I would hold myself so my bones would
> not break. After a minute or two I would automatically
> fall on the floor, but the interrogator behind me
> would put his foot on my chest and press, and the
> interrogator in front would grab my hands and pull and
> pull behind the chair. They kept on like that until I
> don't know what happened to me, heat in every part of
> my body, puking everything I had in my stomach and it
> would go into my nostrils. I would wake up when they
> poured water on my face. When I woke up, we went back
> to the same situation. It went on like this 15-20
> times an hour.
>
> "After that they made me crouch on my toes, not
> letting me lean on the back of my foot. I was in that
> position for 40-50 minutes, maybe an hour - that was
> my estimate - until I felt my soles swelling and they
> turned blue and there was tremendous pain. After that,
> stand up, and they tied my hands and pressed as hard
> as they could on the metal handcuffs until the metal
> dug into my hand. Here are the signs, you can still
> see them. Because of the pressure, the key of the
> handcuffs didn't always work and they would bring huge
> metal scissors, like they use in construction, and
> tear off the handcuffs and then bring new ones, to go
> on. The color of my hands changed to blue, and when
> they opened [the handcuffs] my hands shook. The
> interrogator stood on the table and pulled me with a
> chain of handcuffs. When I fell, they pulled me by the
> hair.
>
> "I would cry, beg, shout, and they came back to me
> with words, that it was impossible to stop, only after
> you start talking about what we want. I said to them:
> Tell me what you want. Tell me I am responsible for
> the attack on the Pentagon, I am ready to confess to
> everything, just tell me what. I want to end this
> death."
>
> "There were always four interrogators and two rotated
> every four hours, day and night. The new ones would
> tell me they were stronger than the ones before, that
> the ones before were a joke, we are the strong ones.
> And that was true. The new ones tied me and started to
> beat me all over my body. One interrogator pressed
> hard on my testicles and on my feet with his shoes.
> When they slapped me and I tried to pull back, the
> major would say: What are you doing? If you move back,
> I will break your nose, and if you move forward I will
> rip off your ear. Be strong and take it sportingly,
> because you are a soldier and a fighter. They broke
> this tooth."
>
> Ashqar suddenly stops talking. He turns pale and his
> face is covered with beads of perspiration. His
> father, Sati, quickly wipes his face with a damp
> cloth. "Every time I try to remember I get dizzy, even
> when I am alone." Quiet descends in the room. It will
> take Ashqar another few minutes to pull himself
> together.
>
> "I was taken into detention on Friday morning, and
> that was the last light of day I saw before the
> interrogation. I came out for the first time on Monday
> night or before dawn on Tuesday morning. On those long
> days I sat in a chair and did not even go to the
> toilet. So you won't kill yourself, they said. I
> urinated in my clothes, and a terrible stench started.
> For four days I didn't eat anything. They told me: If
> we give you something to eat, something will happen to
> your stomach and your intestines. Maybe they will
> explode under the pressure of the food when we push
> you backward. You will drink only half a cup of
> saltwater. That is what they gave me every time after
> they bent me and I vomited. Why with salt? I asked.
> Give me without salt. No, so nothing will happen in
> your stomach and intestines. I would drink it and
> vomit.
>
> "On Monday evening, they told me that five witnesses
> had testified that Luwaii had transported a wanted
> man. I told them that there was a famous wanted man
> named Luwaii Sadi, but my name is Luwaii Sati, and
> maybe they had mixed us up. He said to me: Are you
> saying the Shin Bet is that stupid? We know exactly
> what we're doing, and it is all correct. I said: Put
> me on trial for whatever you want. He said: Ya'allah,
> sports again. He pushes me backward in the chair. I
> will help you become a story in Palestinian history.
> He is talking to me and my head is down below. He
> pushes strongly with his leg and presses on my chest.
> I felt something like an explosion in my body. Like
> something broke. After that I don't know what
> happened. I woke up and they were pouring water on my
> face. Again they pushed me backward and again I
> fainted.
>
> "He said to me: Stand on your feet. I felt that my
> legs were cold, like pins and needles in the legs. I
> said: I can't. He said: Now you are paralyzed. I said:
> I guess I am. He said: That is what we promised you
> and that is what you want."
>
>
> "I discovered I had a wound in the back and it was
> bleeding - because of the sharp chair - and one of my
> bones was protruding. Because of the blood and because
> of the urine of four days there was such a stench that
> the interrogator could not come close to me. He said:
> Why do you stink like that? I told him: That is your
> perfume. A warder took me to the shower and threw me
> on the floor and said to me: Ya'allah, you have two
> minutes to shower. I looked at the faucet up above and
> I could not reach it. I pulled down my pants and the
> underpants stayed in place. I tried to pull them down
> - I could do it in front but behind it was stuck to my
> back. The two minutes went by and the warder started
> to pound on the door. Time's up. I told him: Give me
> another two minutes, I can't reach the faucet. He came
> in and asked: What do you have on your back? I said: I
> don't know.
>
> "He called the interrogator and said: Come and see the
> prisoner. The interrogator came and asked: What do you
> have, Luwaii? I said: I don't know what I have on my
> back, I can't pull the underpants down and I can't
> reach the faucet. He said: Ya'allah, we will go up and
> finish the story and take you to the doctor.
>
> "Two warders took me in a Prisons Service vehicle to
> Rambam [Medical Center in Haifa]. In emergency, my
> hands and feet were tied and a Russian doctor asked
> me: What hurts you? I told him: My whole body hurts
> from the interrogation. The Druze warder said: Shut
> up. The doctor turned me on the side and stuck a
> finger into my ass. I asked him: What are you doing?
> He said: I am checking whether you have hemorrhoids.
> Why didn't you ask me first? I am a professional, he
> said. I said: What about the wound on the back? He put
> ointment there and dressed it. After 10 minutes I was
> taken back to interrogation. Again I was tied to the
> square chair. The bandage fell off and the wound
> started to bleed again. After that, they stopped the
> military interrogation."
>
>
> He was interrogated for another two months, but
> without physical torture. He was told that his wife
> had been arrested because of him - a complete
> fabrication - and he was given a lie detector test
> ("the falsehoods machine," in his Hebrew). For two
> weeks he was placed in a cell with stool pigeons. In
> the end, he was indicted on only two counts, in
> Prosecution File 2157/05: assisting a wanted person to
> hide and using a forged document. No ticking and no
> bomb. Ashqar was sentenced to 26 months in prison and
> was released a month ago. In the meantime, his younger
> brother, Osaimar, disappeared. Soldiers came to the
> house looking for him, but he was not there. His
> family has not seen him since: He told them that he
> was not willing to undergo what Luwaii did.
>
> Luwaii is now looking for a way to get medical
> treatment in Israel or abroad, after his physician
> told him that he would not be able to get
> rehabilitation in the West Bank. His lawyer told him
> that the Shin Bet will almost certainly prevent him
> from going anywhere.
>
> ---
>
> This is the response received by Haaretz from the Shin
> Bet:
>
> Luwaii Ashqar was arrested in April 2005, after
> serious suspicions were raised against him concerning
> his involvement in terrorism, including possession of
> weapons and assistance to wanted individuals - terror
> activists from Islamic Jihad.
>
> One of the suspicions was that he had provided
> accommodation, ahead of a terrorist act, for Sirhan
> Sarhan, the perpetrator of the attack in Kibbutz
> Metzer, who murdered Revital Ohayon and her two
> children, Noam and Matan, of blessed memory.
>
> The suspect was tried and convicted in a plea bargain,
> and sentenced to 14 months in prison and another 14
> months in prison stemming from a pending conditional
> sentence, so that all told he was sentenced to 26
> months in prison. In addition, he received a 28-month
> suspended sentence.
>
> His interrogation was carried out according to the
> rules and directives, with constant review of the
> interrogation process.
>
> During the interrogation, the above-named put forward
> medical complaints, which were examined and treated by
> the appropriate medical authorities, including an
> examination he underwent in hospital.
>
> It should be noted that during the interrogation he
> did not cite medical complaints of the same
> seriousness as those mentioned in the query.
>
> Complaints relating to his interrogation, from, among
> other sources, the Committee Against Torture and the
> Red Cross, were referred to the State Prosecutor's
> Office for examination, which ordered an examination
> by the Ombudsman of Interogees' Complaints.
>
> The examination of the complaints did not turn up any
> excesses in the interrogation, and in the wake of
> this, the official in charge of the OIC in the State
> Prosecutor's Office decided to close the examination
> file.
>
> http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/871239.html
>
>
>



>
> ==========
> Gee, what's this? Three more sleazy Republican-gate scandals
> this week? Who can keep up?
>
> Anybody remember Libbeygate or Albertogate?
> What's that? Like 100 Republican-gates?
>
> And the Dems have how many? ...A guy with cash in his freezer?
>
> =================
>
>
> Saturday, December 15, 2007
>
> ==========
> Twenty-five CIA operatives have been charged in Milan with
> kidnapping.
> ==========
> "We are stunned that Bush's justice department would move to
> block our investigation," the joint leaders of the House
> Intelligence Committee said.
> ==========
>
> Republicans Stop Bill To Ban Waterboarding
>
> CBS News, NY - 9 hours ago
>
>
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/14/national/main3621016.shtml?source=mostpop_story
> (CBS) (CBS/AP) Senate Republicans blocked a bill Friday that
> would restrict the interrogation methods the CIA can use against
> terrorism suspects.
> The bill would require the CIA to adhere to the Army's
> field manual on interrogation, which bans waterboarding, mock
> executions and other harsh interrogation methods.
> The interrogation procedure, which is recognized as a
> form of torture by making the subject think he's drowning, is
> banned by international law. It has been used by CIA
> interrogators on terrorism suspects, or by those to whom U.S.
> prisoners have been sent via rendition flights.
> It was recently learned that the CIA ordered the destruction
> of videotapes of interrogations in which detainees were
> reportedly subjected to waterboarding and other harsh measures.
> Investigation timeline, the chain of command, POW rules,
> global mistreatment of prisoners and video reports. Detainees on
> trial, photos and a history ...
>
> ==========
> Judge Urged Not to Ask About CIA Tapes
>
>
> http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hyL3au-RZxEcch2P9ymXaJ9mroogD8THULS00
> The Associated Press - 5 hours ago
> Bush administration urged the federal court not to look into the
> tapes' destruction.
> WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration told a federal judge it
> was not obligated to preserve videotapes of CIA interrogations of
> suspected terrorists and urged the court not to look into the
> tapes' destruction.
>
> ==========
> Justice Dept: Back Off on CIA Tapes
>
> http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hyL3au-RZxEcch2P9ymXaJ9mroogD8TI33U01
>
> By MATT APUZZO - 47 minutes ago
>
> WASHINGTON (AP) - The controversy over destroyed CIA
> interrogation tapes is shaping up as a turf battle involving the
> courts, Congress and the White House, with the Bush
> administration telling its constitutional coequals to stay out of
> the investigation.
>
> The Bush's Justice Department says it needs time and the freedom
> to probe the destruction of hundreds of hours of recordings of
> two suspected terrorists. After Bush apointee Attorney General
> Michael Mukasey refused congressional demands for information
> Friday, the Justice Department filed late-night court documents
> urging a federal judge not to begin his own inquiry.
>
> The Bush administration argued it was not obligated to preserve
> the videotapes and told U.S. District Judge Henry H. Kennedy that
> demanding information about them "could potentially complicate
> the ongoing efforts to arrive at a full factual understanding of
> the matter."
>
> The documents represent the first time the government has
> addressed the issue in court. In the papers, Bush's acting
> Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey S. Bucholtz said Kennedy
> lacked jurisdiction and he expressed concern that the judge might
> order CIA officials to testify.
>
> Congressional inquiries and criminal investigations frequently
> overlap and it is not uncommon for the Justice Department to ask
> lawmakers to ease off. The request for the court to stand down is
> more unusual. Judges take seriously even the suggestion that
> evidence was destroyed, but they also are reluctant to wade into
> political debates.
>
> Legal experts say it will be up to Mukasey, a former judge who
> was only recently took over as the nation's chief law enforcer,
> to reassure Congress and the courts during his first high-profile
> test.
>
> "We're going to find out if the trust Congress put in Attorney
> General Mukasey was well placed," said Pepperdine Law professor
> Douglas W. Kmiec, who served in the Justice Department during the
> Reagan administration. "It's hard to know on the surface whether
> this is obstruction or an advancement of a legitimate inquiry."
>
> Kennedy ordered the administration in June 2005 to safeguard "all
> evidence and information regarding the torture, mistreatment, and
> abuse of detainees now at the United States Naval Base at
> Guantanamo Bay."
>
> Five months later, the CIA destroyed the interrogation videos,
> which involved suspected terrorists Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim
> al-Nashiri....
>
> ==========
> Judge Urged Not to Ask About CIA Tapes
>
>
> http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hyL3au-RZxEcch2P9ymXaJ9mroogD8THULS00
> The Associated Press - 5 hours ago
> Bush administration urged the federal court not to look into the
> tapes' destruction.
> WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration told a federal judge it
> was not obligated to preserve videotapes of CIA interrogations of
> suspected terrorists and urged the court not to look into the
> tapes' destruction.
>
> The administration has taken a similar strategy in its dealings
> with Congress on the issue. On Friday, the Justice Department
> urged Congress to hold off on questioning witnesses and demanding
> documents because that evidence is part of a joint CIA-Justice
> Department investigation.
>
> Bush's Attorney General Michael Mukasey also refused to give
> Congress details of the government's investigation into the
> matter Friday, saying doing so could raise questions about
> whether the inquiry was vulnerable to political pressure.
>
> Even if Kennedy accepts the argument that government did not
> violate his order, he still could demand a hearing. He could
> raise questions about obstruction or spoliation, a legal term for
> the destruction of evidence in "pending or reasonably foreseeable
> litigation."
> ...
> ==========
> Durbin seeks interrogation tape disclosure
> Chicago Tribune, United States - Dec 13, 2007
> Copyright

 

[Foxtrot]

playing@home.edu (Doug Bashford) wrote:

> Republicans BLOCK TORTURE investigation

Despite all of your articles whining about the CIA disposing of things
it no longer wants, it doesn't owe any tapes to anybody, Botchturd.

>==========
> Twenty-five CIA operatives have been charged with kidnapping.
>
>==========
>Gee, what's this? Three more sleazy Republican-gate scandals
> this week? Who can keep up?

So where are all of these alleged scandals? Don't just hurl vague
accusations, list specific crimes that have been broken and the
alleged perpetrators.

Apparently the kidnapping allegations come from the detention of
terrorist suspects. Let us know when the war crimes tribunals begin,
mmkay?

>=========
>Both parties supported US interrogation program

Both parties?

>Center for Research on Globalization, Canada - Dec 12, 2007
> http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7604

>The revelation last week that the CIA deliberately destroyed
>videotapes involving the interrogation and torture of at least
>two prisoners has thrown further light on the criminality of the
>Bush administration.

A supposition and an editorial. Your sources are worthless. But
since you trust them, let's look at what they say.

>The CIA has been caught red-handed in
>obstruction of justice in destroying incriminating evidence and
>lying to the courts and the 9/11 Commission.
>
>Several reports, however, clearly demonstrate that the policy of
>torture received bipartisan support and that leading Democrats
>knew of the tapes and the CIA

 

[Terrorized by Pugscums]

"Foxtrot" <foxtrot@null.com> wrote in message
news:bs29m3hmsh3vsigo10959p2hpnbo5vdbdg@4ax.com...
> So where are all of these alleged scandals?
<snip>

Crawl out of your Grandfather's fallout shelter and read a newspaper.

 

[Doug Bashford]

in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, On 15 Dec 2007, Foxtrot said about:
Re: 3 more Republican-gate SCANDALS !! - Republicans BLOCK
TORTURE investigation


> playing@home.edu (Doug Bashford) wrote:
>
> > Republicans BLOCK TORTURE investigation
>
> Despite all of your articles whining about the CIA disposing of things
> it no longer wants, it doesn't owe any tapes to anybody, Botchturd.
>
> >==========
> > Twenty-five CIA operatives have been charged with kidnapping.
> >
> >==========
> >Gee, what's this? Three more sleazy Republican-gate scandals
> > this week? Who can keep up?
>
> So where are all of these alleged scandals? Don't just hurl vague
> accusations, list specific crimes that have been broken and the
> alleged perpetrators.

Jeepers what you delete from my post?

again:


Republicans BLOCK TORTURE investigation

==========
Twenty-five CIA operatives have been charged with kidnapping.

==========
Gee, what's this? Three more sleazy Republican-gate scandals
this week? Who can keep up?

Anybody remember Libbeygate or Albertogate?
What's that? Like 100 Republican-gates?

And the Dems have how many? ...A guy with cash in his freezer?

=================


Saturday, December 15, 2007

==========
Twenty-five CIA operatives have been charged in Milan with
kidnapping.
==========
"We are stunned that Bush's justice department would move to
block our investigation," the joint leaders of the House
Intelligence Committee said.
==========

Republicans Stop Bill To Ban Waterboarding

CBS News, NY - 9 hours ago

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/14/national/main3621016.shtml?source=mostpop_story
(CBS) (CBS/AP) Senate Republicans blocked a bill Friday that
would restrict the interrogation methods the CIA can use against
terrorism suspects.
The bill would require the CIA to adhere to the Army's
field manual on interrogation, which bans waterboarding, mock
executions and other harsh interrogation methods.
The interrogation procedure, which is recognized as a
form of torture by making the subject think he's drowning, is
banned by international law. It has been used by CIA
interrogators on terrorism suspects, or by those to whom U.S.
prisoners have been sent via rendition flights.
It was recently learned that the CIA ordered the destruction
of videotapes of interrogations in which detainees were
reportedly subjected to waterboarding and other harsh measures.
Investigation timeline, the chain of command, POW rules,
global mistreatment of prisoners and video reports. Detainees on
trial, photos and a history ...

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Judge Urged Not to Ask About CIA Tapes


http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hyL3au-RZxEcch2P9ymXaJ9mroogD8THULS00
The Associated Press - 5 hours ago
Bush administration urged the federal court not to look into the
tapes' destruction.
WASHINGTON (AP)