Bush approved CIA disclosure on waterboarding
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U.S. President George W. Bush authorized the CIA to give its most detailed public account of its use of a widely condemned interrogation technique known as waterboarding, the White House said on Wednesday.
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President Bush spared former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby from a 2 1/2-year prison term in the CIA leak investigation Monday, delivering a political thunderbolt in the highly charged criminal case. Bush said the sentence was just too harsh.
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President Bush will announce that   about a dozen key foreign terrorism suspects held at secret CIA   prisons will be transferred to Department of Defense custody   and granted protection under the Geneva Conventions, ABC News   reported on Wednesday.
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The House approved legislation Wednesday giving the Bush administration authority to interrogate and prosecute terrorism detainees, moving President Bush to the edge of a pre-election victory with a key piece of his anti-terror plan.
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The Democratic-led Congress defied a White House veto threat on Wednesday and voted to ban the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques.
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The CIA interrogation program should now be back in business and terrorist trials can begin right away, according to proponents of new legislation passed by Congress. The legislation is a victory for President Bush, whose detention and interrogation program was deemed illegal by the Supreme Court in June. Bush turned to Congress and was able to push through legislation that would revive his anti-terror efforts.
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WASHINGTON - The recently retired deputy director of CIA operations Tuesday defended the legality of the CIA&#39;s interrogation and detention policies in Iraq and elsewhere, saying they were vetted and approved by the National Security Council and disclosed
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Many harsh interrogation techniques would be made lawful by legislation put forward by the Bush administration.
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The White House on Wednesday defended its response to disclosures about the CIA's destruction of videotapes that showed harsh interrogations of two terrorism suspects.
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The Republican-led Senate approved President Bush's choice to head the CIA, Rep. Porter Goss, over protests from some Democrats who said he has too many Republican ties for a job that requires independence.
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GENEVA -- President Bush's confirmation of secret CIA prisons re ignited controversy yesterday, with European lawmakers demanding the exact locations and other critics saying the system tacitly approves torture.
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President Bush and Senate   Republicans hammered out a deal on Thursday for interrogating   and trying foreign terrorism suspects, and Bush hailed it for   preserving his program for CIA questioning of detainees.
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President Bush signed an executive order Friday spelling out new interrogation techniques for terrorism suspects that bar cruel and inhumane treatment, humiliation or denigration of prisoners' religious beliefs.
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President Bush released intelligence asserting that Osama bin Laden in 2005 ordered the creation of a terrorist unit to hit targets outside Iraq, including the United States
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The House approved legislation yesterday that would bar the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics, drawing an immediate veto threat from the White House and setting up another political showdown over what constitutes torture.
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The CIA admits that it used the controversial interrogation technique of waterboarding on al-Qaeda suspects.
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The U.S. Senate on Thursday gave   final approval to a bill for tough interrogations and   prosecutions of terrorism suspects, as President George W. Bush   prevailed after a series of setbacks on his detainee policies.