Senator says ban torture but give CIA interrogation leeway

**Terri** · #1 05-09-2008, 08:14 AM

By PAMELA HESS
Associated Press
May 9, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Seeking to referee a stalemate over how the CIA can interrogate prisoners, a top Senate Republican says Congress should ban waterboarding and seven other abusive methods of interrogation but allow the spy agency some leeway in how it questions detainees.

Missouri Sen. Kit Bond, the senior Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, outlined his proposal in nonbinding language accompanying a bill that sets out the intelligence community's policies, programs and spending for 2009. An unclassified summary was released Thursday.

Like the 2008 version of the authorization bill -- which President Bush vetoed -- the 2009 bill restricts the CIA to using only the 19 interrogation techniques approved by the military in the Army Field Manual. Bond said he would seek to attach his proposed compromise to this or other legislation.

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elmerck1 · #2 05-09-2008, 01:10 PM

If I could talk to Kit Bond, I would tell him to stay out of the CIA's business, and not limit them to any thing. We are at war, and anything goes. He holds his head side ways to much. I think Rockefellow has got to him, and he is not running on all cylinders. If Pat Roberts was still the miniority rep. on the intell. comm. he would not buy what Kit is saying.I was just watching c-span, and some kooky humans right lawyer from the aclu was on there telling how mean we are, and our values are shot, but those guys that blew up the trade towers, didn't give us any quarter, so I don't think they deserve any now. I read yesterday where one we turned loose from gitmo, was turned loose by a Kwaiti court, and he wired himself up and blew up a bunch of innocent civilians. So, I would not turn them aloose. They would just fade into the sunset.

rangerrebew · #3 05-13-2008, 05:23 PM

Commiecrats and rinos either haven't figured it out or refuse to admit that we are at war. So they will do everything they can to make sure that when the dam breaks, we are so far below that it will take years before we reach water level, just like in WW II. In their unproductive, sterile minds, planning ahead is something only boy scouts do.

schillerbjr · #4 05-13-2008, 07:44 PM

I concur with RANGERREBEW post # 3, well said!