CIA interrogation bill changing
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A spokesman for the Senate Armed Services chairman says draft legislation is headed to Capitol Hill with "new language," for a proposal that would allow the CIA to continue alternative interrogation techniques on suspected terrorists. Republican senators have voted against legislation on detainees held at the U.S. facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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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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The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has demanded a legal review of the CIA's detention and interrogation program for terrorism suspects as part of its version of the fiscal 2008 intelligence authorization bill.
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President Bush bowed to pressure   from leading senators in his Republican party on Thursday,   revising a bill for interrogating terrorism suspects that   critics had said would allow abusive treatment.
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Draft legislation to create a new system of military courts for terrorism suspects would allow prosecutors to introduce at future trials confessions that were obtained through "cruel, unusual, or inhumane" interrogations by the CIA or the military before 2005, but not afterward.
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WASHINGTON, Oct 24: The US Justice Department authorized the CIA to transfer detainees out of Iraq for interrogation - a practice that contravenes the Geneva Conventions, the Washington Post reported on Sunday.
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The United States could detain more   foreigners as enemy combatants under legislation Congress will   debate this week after a last-minute change in the bill,   lawmakers said on Tuesday.
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The Senate sent the restructuring bill to the White House on Wednesday, where President Bush is expected to sign it into law next week, setting in motion the first major changes in the U.S. intelligence community since the CIA was established in 1947.
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The US House of Representatives backs a bill which would ban the use of harsh interrogation techniques by the CIA.
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Interrogation practices prohibited in the House bill, which would apply Army Field Manual restrictions to the CIA:
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In the latest sign of G.O.P. division, Colin L. Powell sent a letter of support to Senator John McCain, who is seeking limits to legislation on interrogation.
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To many of President Bush's allies, it is time to free intelligence officials from "legislative purgatory" and get the CIA back in the business of effective interrogations of suspected terrorists.
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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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Some of the major events leading to the intelligence legislation:
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The House approved an intelligence bill that bans the C.I.A. from using waterboarding, mock executions and other harsh interrogation methods.
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Acting under pressure from Congress, the CIA has decided to trim its contractor staffing by 10 percent.  It is the agency's first effort since the Sept. 11, 2001,  attacks to curb what critics have decried as the growing privatization of U.S. intelligence work, a circumstance that has sharply boo...
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The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to   reinstate a special CIA unit hunting for Osama bin Laden as it   passed a $469 billion Pentagon funding bill.