De V.S. De passenrekening van het huis om „het waterboarding“ te verbieden

Wordt gestemd 222-199 over, indien werd de intelligentierekening verzonden naar de Senaat en zal van kracht worden President George W. Het teken van Bush het.

Onder de bepalingen van de rekening die openbaar werden gemaakt, vereist één rapporterend aan de commissies voor of de werknemers van het intelligentieagentschap bescherming voor gevangenen van wrede, inhumane en degraderende behandeling naleven. Another provision requires a report on the use of private contractors in intelligence work.

As the first intelligence authorization conference bill Congress has presented in three years, the bill also suspended 70 percent of the intelligence budget spending in 2008 until the House and Senate intelligence committees are briefed on Israel’s Sept. 6 air strike on an alleged nuclear site in Syria.

It also requires the creation of a new internal watchdog to oversee all the intelligence agencies.

The bill was approved days after CIA Director Michael Hayden testified at Congress hearings on the agency’s destruction of interrogating videotapes, reviving debate whether CIA was trying to cover torture on terrorist suspects including waterboarding.

However, the White House threatened to veto the bill this week, noting that they disagree with more than 11 areas of the bill, especially opposing restricting the CIA to interrogation methods approved by the U.S. military in 2006.