US House presses CIA to join military in rejecting torture
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The House of Representatives has adopted a bill requiring US intelligence agencies to renounce all forms of torture by following explicit rules set out by the US military.
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At the urging of the White House,  congressional leaders scrapped a legislative measure last month  that would have imposed new restrictions on the use of extreme  interrogation measures by American intelligence officers, The  New York Times reported on Wednesday.
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Republicans pushed a bill supported   by President George W. Bush to set rules for interrogating and   trying terrorism suspects through the U.S. House of   Representatives on Wednesday and Senate Republicans were   expected to follow the next day.
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Republicans pushed a bill supported   by President George W. Bush to set rules for interrogating and   trying terrorism suspects through the U.S. House of   Representatives on Wednesday and Senate Republicans were   expected to follow within a day.
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The CIA said Wednesday it would begin handing over documents to Congress about the destruction of videotapings showing the harsh interrogation of two terror suspects after the House Intelligence Committee threatened to subpoena two agency officials.
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The new proposal by eight Republican senators to break up the CIA and the Pentagon&#39;s virtual lock on intelligence met with sharp opposition yesterday
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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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Defining limits on 'alternative' interrogation methods is major concern of key US lawmakers.
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The White House on Tuesday asked Congress to reject an attempt by Republican leaders in the House to place in an intelligence reorganization bill some anti-illegal immigration measures that Democrats say they won't support.
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The United States will reject any  request by Italy to extradite CIA agents for the first criminal  trial over controversial U.S. "renditions" of terror suspects,  a U.S. government lawyer said on Wednesday.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross has accused the US military of using interrogation methods that amount to torture at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.
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The US House of Representatives has voted to deny all aid to Saudi Arabia, despite repeated assurances by the Bush administration that the desert kingdom was cooperating in its war on terror.
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A Republican-led congressional  committee on Wednesday rejected concerns about civil liberties  and passed a bill to expand the U.S. government's power to  track terror suspects and deport people seen as a risk.
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The House on Wednesday urged the federal government to contest a court decision that would allow colleges to limit the activities of military recruiters on their campuses because of the military's ban on openly gay people.
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The United States has failed to guard against torture and inhuman behavior since launching its &quot;war on terror&quot; after Sept.
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A report that the CIA secretly transferred detainees out of Iraq for interrogation without notifying the Red Cross drew criticism Sunday from key members of Congress.
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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.