White House Fought Curbs on Interrogations
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The Bush administration urged  Congress to drop a legislative proposal that would have curbed  the ability of U.S. intelligence to use extreme interrogation  tactics, the White House acknowledged on Thursday.
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Congressional leaders scrapped a measure that would have imposed new restrictions on the use of extreme interrogation measures by U.S. officers.
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The United States used waterboarding in terrorism interrogations but no longer does, a former U.S. spy chief said in the Bush administration's most explicit confirmation of the technique's use.
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Eight months after President Bush signed a bill authorizing the CIA to resume using  "enhanced interrogation techniques" on terrorism suspects, the administration has been unable to agree  on what constitutes "humiliating and degrading treatment" of detainees.
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The president faces an array of challenges on issues from warrantless wiretaps to military tribunals.
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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 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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White House officials, potentially vulnerable to prosecution in the wake of the Supreme Court's Hamdan decision, break out the big guns in a battle over detainees
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Defying a White House veto threat, the U.S. House of Representatives voted on Thursday to outlaw harsh interrogation methods, such as simulated drowning, that the CIA has used against suspected terrorists.
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The White House and three powerful GOP senators reached an impasse Wednesday over a Bush administration plan to allow tough CIA interrogations, underscoring election-season divisions among Republicans on the high profile issue of security.
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The Bush administration on Wednesday said it had not misled the public about the role of White House lawyers in discussions about whether to destroy tapes of secret interrogations.
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Attorney General-nominee Alberto Gonzales, under scorching criticism from senators, condemned torture as an interrogation tactic Thursday and promised to prosecute abusers of terror suspects. He also disclosed the White House was looking at trying to change the Geneva Conventions that protect prisoner rights.
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White House loyalists struggled on Wednesday to save President Bush's wartime legislative plans from collapsing under Republican squabbles. In cliffhanger votes, a House committee rejected, then endorsed Bush's proposal to continue tough interrogations of suspected terrorists.
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The wiretapping deal is just the latest sign of how the White House is losing ground in the fight over wartime powers
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The White House tried to distance President Bush from any political backlash from the page sex scandal Thursday, saying House Republicans were dealing with the matter and do not need to be told what to do.
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U.S. President George W. Bush has issued new rules to ensure that the CIA detention and interrogation program is in full compliance with the Geneva Conventions' ban on torture, the U.S. spy agency said on Friday.
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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.