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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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The testimony comes a day after the US Senate approved [JURIST report] a measure [HR 2082 materials] restricting CIA interrogators to using only those interrogation techniques explicitly authorized by the 2006 Army Field Manual, ...
Open Thread and Diary Rescue
Milos Janus Outlook gives us some salve for our wounds in Gratitude, FISA, and HR 2082, because sometimes it's hard to challenge the Bush administration. (jlms qkw). Photobucket From the Philosophy Desk Photobucket ...
Bush to veto intelligence bill restricting CIA interrogation tactics
Bush said in a BBC interview [transcript; recorded video] Thursday that he will veto an intelligence funding bill [HR 2082 materials] that would restrict CIA interrogators to using only interrogation techniques explicitly authorized by ...
Open Thread and Diary Rescue
Milos Janus Outlook gives us some salve for our wounds in Gratitude, FISA, and HR 2082, because sometimes itâs hard to challenge the Bush administration. (jlms qkw). Photobucket From the Philosophy Desk Photobucket ...
Open Thread and Diary Rescue
Milos Janus Outlook gives us some salve for our wounds in Gratitude, FISA, and HR 2082, because sometimes itâs hard to challenge the Bush administration. (jlms qkw). Photobucket From the Philosophy Desk Photobucket ...
URGENT: Tell the White House to Sign the Anti-Torture Bill
We ask you to call the White House at 202-456-1111, or to email the President at comments@whitehouse.gov to express your support for HR 2082 (the Intelligence Authorization bill). Tell the President that we cannot win the war on terror ...
GRATITUDE, FISA, AND HR 2082
Today, my attention has been on HR 2082 and Section 327 (the anti-torture provision). How could any member of Congress not vote to forbid torture? 45 of them did, including one of the original voices against torture, John McCain. ...
Will Bush Veto the Torture Ban?
Yesterday, the Senate approved, by a vote of 51 to 45, Conference Report HR 2082. This conference report, already passed by the House, is an authorization of intelligence activities. The bill restricts interrogations by all intelligence ...
Tortured Candidate Votes for Torture
Measure Number:, HR 2082 (Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 ). Measure Title:, A bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States ...
Today in Washington DC - Feb 14, 2008
Yesterday, the Senate passed the conference report for the fiscal 2008 intelligence authorization bill (HR 2082). The 51-45 vote was largely along party lines. The New York Times reports, â. . . Bush intended to veto the bill, ...
McCain waffles on the âno waterboardingâ bill
Now if you read HR 2082 it does not say that waterboarding (a type of physical interrogation that some have said is torture) is banned. But what it does say is that only the interrogation techniques contained in the Army Field Manual ...
More Symbolic Democrat Legislation
Yesterday at 4:31 PM Eastern time, the Senate voted 51-45 to pass HR 2082 (Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008). This is the measure to: [A]uthorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for intelligence and ...
HR2082
302 of HR 2082, house bill "Intelligence Authorization Act for fiscal year 2008" agreed to by Senate: "The authorization of appropriations by this Act shall not be deemed to constitute authority for the conduct of any intelligence ...
Senate Passes Ban On Waterboarding, Other Techniques
As retired military leaders of the US Armed Forces, we write to express our strong support for Section 327 of the Conference Report on the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008, HR 2082. Section 327 would require ...
The Senate interrogation BAN: Corker votes NO
Measure Number:, HR 2082 (Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 ). Measure Title:, A bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States ...
torture helps the terrorists win
Then yesterday, the US Senate passed HR 2082, the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008, by a vote of 51-45. What does that have to do with torture? See sec. 327 of the bill:. 'SEC. 327. ...
Open Thread and Diary Rescue
Milos Janus Outlook gives us some salve for our wounds in Gratitude, FISA, and HR 2082, because sometimes it's hard to challenge the Bush administration. (jlms qkw). Photobucket From the Philosophy Desk Photobucket ...
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES: Detainees Tortured... with Starbucks ...
In other news, the Senate voted for a ban (among other things) on waterboarding and other techniques in Measure HR 2082 (which President Bush has said he would veto if it inhibited the CIA from getting their jobs done): ...
Setting The Record Straight
This is the text of HR 2082. I am sure, most of you have better things to do than comb the entire resolution wording. Watching paint dry would certainly be more fun. But there is one section that is pertinent to this post: ...
McCain waffles on the âno waterboardingâ bill
Now if you read HR 2082 it does not say that waterboarding (a type of physical interrogation that some have said is torture) is banned. But what it does say is that only the interrogation techniques contained in the Army Field Manual ...
40+ Retired Flag and General Officers Urge Senate Support for ...
The provision, which passed the House in December as part of the Conference Report on the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008, HR 2082, is scheduled for a vote in the Senate today, Wednesday. Full release.
2/13/2008
Thereafter, vote on the conference report to accompany HR2082, the Intelligence Authorization Act. Previous Meeting Tuesday, Feb 12, 2008 The Senate convened at 10:00 am and adjourned at 6:26 pm Eight record votes were taken. ...
2008 Candidates Oppose or Ignore Congressional Ban on Waterboarding
On Wednesday, February 13 2008 HR 2082 gave three of the front-running Presidential candidates the opportunity to ban waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods. President George Bush is expected to veto this legislation. ...
McCain Watch: Will he duck the next torture vote?
110-478, accompanying HR 2082), which will contain in Section 327 the following: SEC. 327. LIMITATION ON INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES. (a) Limitation- No individual in the custody or under the effective control of an element of the ...
Waterboarding Ban? -- Senate Shadow-Boxing Bush on Torture
Despite the best intentions of a number of politicians and human rights advocates, the Senate Intelligence Intelligence Authorization Bill (HR 2082) is not going to significantly change the US torture picture. ...
1:05:41 PM 12:00 PM Senators Speak on Behalf of HR 2082
Senators Kennedy, Rockefeller, Whitehouse and Bill Nelson supported the provision of the bill to bring the CIA interrogation techniques under the Army Field Manual guidelines. Senator Nelson argued the amendment would provide greater ...
2:55:24 PM 2:30 PM Intelligence Authorization Bill Discussed, Roll ...
A unanimous consent request by Majority Leader Reid was agreed to for a roll call vote on adoption of the Conference Report to accompany HR 2082, the Intelligence Authorization Act.
Torture in America: The Senate Struggles for America's Conscience
in the Conference Report of the 2008 Intelligence Authorization Act, HR 2082. HuffPo | Senator Edward M. Kennedy | Closing the Torture Loophole: Bringing America Back from the Brink. After months of Republican obstruction, ...
McCain Watch: Will he duck the next torture vote?
110-478, accompanying HR 2082), which will contain in Section 327 the following:. SEC. 327. LIMITATION ON INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES. (a) Limitation- No individual in the custody or under the effective control of an element of the ...
Congress 110, Senate vote: Vote 21: On the Cloture Motion
Category: Cloture. Vote description: Motion To Invoke Cloture On The Conference Report To Accompany HR 2082; Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008. Result: Agreed to, 92-4, with 4 not voting. Barack Obama voted Not Voting.
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