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Bush set to veto bill on interrogation
Saturday, 8 March 2008
The White House has said US President George W Bush will veto proposed legislation that would ban US intelligence agents from using waterboarding and other controversial interrogation methods.
Waterboarding, in which suspects are subjected to simulated drowning, has been widely criticised by many members of congress, human rights organisations and other countries.
Last month, Congress sent Mr Bush a broad intelligence authorisation bill that contained new limits on CIA interrogation techniques.
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The Bush administration has countered that the CIA should not be held to the US military's interrogation standards because intelligence agents are dealing with terrorists who are not lawful combatants operating under traditional battlefield tactics.
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