Senate Votes to Ban Waterboarding
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Congress on Wednesday moved to prohibit the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects
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The US Senate passed controversial new rules on interrogating and prosecuting &quot;war on terror&quot; suspects, despite opponents who said the measure seriously curtails detainees' rights.
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The CIA has banned the controversial interrogation technique known as "water boarding," which simulates drowning to persuade suspects to talk, ABC News reported on Friday.
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The 68-29 vote Tuesday by which the Senate passed new rules for government eavesdropping on phone calls and e-mails.
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The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a   bill setting rules for interrogations and prosecutions of   foreign terrorism suspects, sending it to President George W.   Bush to sign into law.
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The Senate, ignoring a veto threat from the White House, authorized $23 billion in water projects Monday, including work to restore the hurricane-ravaged Louisiana coast and Florida's Everglades
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The CIA's current techniques for interrogation of terrorism suspects are lawful and do not include the widely condemned simulated drowning method known as waterboarding, U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey told Congress on Tuesday.
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Key senators say Congress has outlawed one of the most notorious detainee interrogation techniques -- "waterboarding," in which a prisoner feels near drowning. But the White House will not go that far, saying it would be wrong to tell terrorists which practices they might face.
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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 House on Thursday approved an intelligence bill that bans the CIA from using waterboarding, mock executions and other harsh interrogation methods
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The U.S. Senate has voted to outlaw  several favorite techniques of people who illegally copy and  distribute movies, but has dropped other measures that could  have led to jail time for Internet song-swappers.
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The Senate voted today to preserve retroactive immunity from lawsuits for telecommunications companies that cooperated with a government eavesdropping program, decisively rejecting an amendment that would have stripped the provision from a bill to modernize an electronic surveillance law.
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Congressional leaders scrapped a measure that would have imposed new restrictions on interrogations by intelligence officers.
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The US Senate passed legislation to reorganize the nation&#39;s intelligence agencies and create a national director of intelligence to oversee efforts to prevent terrorist attacks.
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The Senate signaled in a key vote yesterday that it supports giving some of the nation's largest telephone companies immunity from dozens of privacy lawsuits related to a federal domestic eavesdropping program initiated after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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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.
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A bill backed by President George W.   Bush to enable a court review of his domestic spying program   won the approval on Wednesday of a U.S. Senate panel under   election-year pressure to safeguard civil liberties.