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March 8, 2008, President Bush vetoes H.R. 2082, the Intelligence Authorization bill, which prevents the CIA and other US agents from using simulated drowning - waterboarding, sexual humiliation, dogs and other techniques that amount to torture and ill-treatment.
These methods of interrogation have been labeled alternative, harsh, and enhanced in an attempt to conceal what our government is really committing…acts of torture.
People, please take a look at this closely. We are ultimately responsible for what our government does in our name. This kind of blatant disregard for human rights causes us far more damage than any benefits we receive from it. Torture is wrong everywhere, all the time, regardless of what agency or country does it. We are breaking the rules we as a country fought to establish in the first place.
The Bush Administration has stated it does not torture, yet has to redefine its definition to condone its own actions. This bill was backed by 18 former...
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