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H.R.2082 - Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008
To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes. view all titles (5)
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- Short: Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 as reported to house.
- Short: Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 as introduced.
- Short: Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 as passed house.
- Official: To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes. as introduced.
- Short: Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 as passed senate.
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Impeach Bush and Cheney...There Is No Other Choice!
(Democrats in roman; Republicans in italic; Independents underlined). HR 2082 2/3 YEA-AND-NAY 11-Mar-2008 7:01 PM. QUESTION: Passage, Objections of the President Not Withstanding. BILL TITLE: The Intelligence Authorization Act of 2008 ...
Bush Defends Torture...Again
If you look hard for it in the Washington Post this morning you'll find the end of the story on HR 2082, the the bill passed by both the House and the Senate which would have banned the use of torture by the CIA. ...
Bush Vetoes Anti-Torture Bill
Override veto of HR 2082 To: George W. Bush (R) Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD) Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD) Representative Chris Van Hollen Jr. (D-MD 8th) Let's change our reputation for breaking treaties, shall we? ...
Civilianism #52 / Logical Graffiti
Message to the House of Representatives I am returning herewith without my approval HR 2082, the "Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008." Samantha Power, humanitarian, author and former Obama aide, called Senator Clinton a ...
Online Extra: The president's veto
On Saturday, Mr. Bush vetoed HR 2082, a Congressional bill that would have outlawed US federal agencies, including the CIA, from using waterboarding, sexual humiliation, dogs and other techniques that amount to torture and ill-treatment ...
Last Gasp Effort to End Our Status as a Torture Regime Dear ...
On Saturday, March 8, President Bush vetoed HR 2082, an important piece of anti-torture legislation that would have banned the use of waterboarding, stress positions, induced hypothermia, and other so-called "harsh" interrogation ...
Don't even know what they're voting for
Last week the Senate passed the Conference Report of the 137-page Intelligence Authorization Act (HR 2082). The big media story about the bill is its ban on waterboarding, which will apparently prompt a Presidential veto. ...
Face Of The Day
Bush's veto of HR 2082 that would prohibit all US intelligence agencies, including the CIA, from subjecting detainees to waterboarding, stress positions, hypothermia, and other forms of torture. By Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.
House Republicans Sustain Presidentâs Veto of Intelligence ...
Today, the House is voting on overriding the Presidentâs veto of the Intelligence Authorization bill (HR 2082). The President vetoed the bill over the provision that extends to US intelligence agencies and personnel the current ...
Why Did Kucinich and Waters Not Vote For AntiTorture Bill?
The US House attempted to override President Bushâs veto of HR 2082, the intelligence appropriations bill that would have explicitly outlawed waterboarding and other forms of torture, today. Only 5 Republicans had the decency to vote in ...
Urge your representative to override the President's veto
On Saturday, March 8, President Bush vetoed HR 2082, an important piece of anti-torture legislation that would have banned the use of waterboarding, stress positions, induced hypothermia, and other so-called "harsh" interrogation ...
Cheating with multiple posts ...
âTo the House of Representatives: I am returning herewith without my approval HR 2082, the âIntelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008.â The bill would impede the United States governmentâs efforts to protect the American ...
Ah, Those Wonderful Christian Conservatives
On Saturday, March 8, President Bush vetoed HR 2082, an important piece of anti-torture legislation that would have banned the use of waterboarding, stress positions, induced hypothermia, and other so-called "harsh" interrogation ...
Torture Is A Moral Issue
On Saturday, March 8, President Bush vetoed HR 2082, an important piece of anti-torture legislation that would have banned the use of waterboarding, stress positions, induced hypothermia, and other so-called "harsh" interrogation ...
URGENT: Call on Congress to Override the Bush Veto
Please call your Representative in Congress and urge him or her to vote to override the Presidentâs veto of HR 2082, the Intelligence Authorization bill. To contact your Member of Congress you can call the Capitol switchboard at ...
Override the President's Veto | FORpeace
Please ask your constituents to call their Representatives in Congress and tell them that they would like them to vote to override the President's veto of H.R. 2082, the Intelligence Authorization bill. America must make it clear to ...
Message to the House of Representatives
I am returning herewith without my approval HR 2082, the "Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008." The bill would impede the United States Government's efforts to protect the American people effectively from terrorist ...
Morning Brief, Monday, March 10
2008 US Elections. EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images. Barack Obama won a big victory in the Wyoming caucuses Satuday, netting himself two delegates. Next up? Mississippi, where the Illinois senator is also favored. ...
The Budget, a Greenhouse, and Challenging a Veto
The House may also consider whether to override the president's veto of HR 2082, the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008. Among a number of objections to the bill as passed, the president cited a restriction on the ...
Speak Out about Bush's Veto of an Anti-Torture Law
I am extremely disappointed that President Bush vetoed HR 2082, the Intelligence Authorization bill, which prevents the Central Intelligence Agency and other US agents from using waterboarding, sexual humiliation, dogs and other ...
Override the President's Veto
As you probably know, on Saturday, March 8, President Bush vetoed HR 2082, an important piece of anti-torture legislation that would have banned the use of waterboarding, stress positions, induced hypothermia, and other so-called ...
Bush Vetoes...
HR 2082: Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 In case you were wondering...here are some of the things thusly vetoed... - Mandates that no person in the custody or within the control of an element of the intelligence ...
More on the President's Veto
Responding to Jamie Smithâs comments, Jonathan Watson writes: âAs a quick note - the bill President Bush vetoed was HR 2082 - It's the general appropriations intelligence bill. This was not a veto of Sen. Kennedyâs bill, S. ...
Democrats, rights groups criticize Bush veto of waterboarding ban
[JURIST] Democratic members of both the US House and Senate have criticized President George Bush's Saturday veto [JURIST report] of a bill [HR 2082 materials] that would have prohibited the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official ...
bush attempts to regain torture momentum
I am returning herewith without my approval HR 2082, the âIntelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008.â *The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) must be allowed to maintain a separate and classified interrogation program. ...
[osint] Bush vetoes interrogation limits
returning herewith without my approval HR 2082, the "Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008.â" In February CIA director Michael Hayden for the first time confirmed that the agency had used "waterboarding," or simulated
Hello, Barbara?
03/08/08 - President Bush vetos HR 2082 - The Intelligence Authorization Act for 2008. Hello, Barbara? Yes... This is Cynthia, next door. Why hello, Cynthia. How ar you? Well, . . .
"The best source of information on terrorist attacks is the ...
This week he took the opportunity to explain why he was vetoing the Intelligence Funding Bill (HR 2082) which has written into it restrictions on CIA interrogators to use only methods and techniques auhtorized in the 2006 US Army Field ...
The Interrogations Bill veto
President Bush just vetoed bill HR 2082, the "Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008." Not a big surprise, since he said he would. The margin of passage in the House and Senate was too low to override the President's veto. ...
Veto of Torture Bill
Here is the President's message to Congress and here is the full information about the bill: HR 2082, the âIntelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008. Here is the Congressional Research Service report on the bill. ...
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