www射-国产免费一级-欧美福利-亚洲成人福利-成人一区在线观看-亚州成人

   

Bush vetoes waterboarding bill

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-03-09 09:52

WASHINGTON - US President George W. Bush vetoed on Saturday a bill that would ban the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from using harsh tactics including waterboarding to interrogate terrorist suspects.

Bush announced the decision in his weekly radio address to the nation, defending such tactics have helped foil terrorist plots, including one against a Marine camp in Djibouti and the US consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, and plans to fly passenger planes into a Los Angeles tower or London's Heathrow Airport and city buildings.

US President George W. Bush speaks from the West Wing Colonnade at the White House in Washington, DC, on March 7, 2008. Bush on Saturday vetoed legislation on intelligence funding because it included a provision aimed at cutting back harsh interrogation methods like waterboarding. [Agencies]

"Were it not for this program, our intelligence community believes that al-Qaida and its allies would have succeeded in launching another attack against the American homeland," Bush said.

"I cannot sign into law a bill that would prevent me, and future presidents, from authorizing the CIA to conduct a separate, lawful intelligence program, and from taking all lawful actions necessary to protect Americans from attack," he added.

The bill, passed by the House of Representatives at 222-199 and the Senate at 51-45, would have limited the CIA to 19 interrogation techniques that are used by the military and spelled out in the Army Field Manual. It is considered difficult for Democrats to gain a two-thirds majority in Congress to turn back Bush's veto.

Although Bush said that waterboarding is not practiced by CIA now, it still remains in the agency's tool kit, meaning that it can be used after requiring the consent of the attorney general and the president.

However, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that the U.S. leadership in the world depends on its morality, not military might.

"We will begin to reassert that moral authority by attempting to override the president's veto next week," Pelosi said.

Some US human right groups also charged the president's refusal to sign this crucial legislation into law.



Top World News  
Today's Top News  
Most Commented/Read Stories in 48 Hours
主站蜘蛛池模板: 538在线视频二三区视视频 | 手机看片1024国产基地 | 精品一区二区久久 | 福利视频黄 | 日韩 国产 欧美视频一区二区三区 | 久久久久久综合七次郎 | 国产视频软件在线 | 亚洲欧美一级久久精品 | 精品真实国产乱文在线 | 伊人色综合久久天天人手人停 | 美女视频黄免费 | 一级全免费视频播放 | 亚洲精品综合一区二区 | 成人国产一区二区三区精品 | 日韩一级视频 | 亚洲欧洲国产视频 | 99精品在线视频观看 | 久久一级视频 | 欧美人成一本免费观看视频 | 丁香狠狠色婷婷久久综合 | 精品久久久久久久久久久 | 亚洲第一免费 | 美女网站免费观看视频 | 国产成人一区二区三中文 | 免费人成激情视频在线观看冫 | 欧美日韩精品一区二区三区视频在线 | 亚洲成在线 | 美国欧美一级毛片 | 久操福利视频 | 一级一片免费播放 | 久草资源免费 | 国产 一二三四五六 | 毛片在线视频观看 | 国产午夜精品久久理论片小说 | 91看片淫黄大片欧美看国产片 | 欧美成人全部视频 | 99精品视频一区在线观看miya | 国产国语高清在线视频二区 | 美国一级片免费看 | 黑人边吃奶边扎下面激情视频 | 国模午夜写真福利视频在线 |