Bush Vetoes Bill That Would Limit Interrogations

The New York Times ^ | March 8, 2008 | STEVEN LEE MYERS

[yoe]

President Bush on Saturday further cemented his legacy of fighting for strong executive powers, using his veto to shut down a congressional effort to limit the Central Intelligence Agency’s latitude to subject terrorism suspects to harsh interrogation techniques that are prohibited by the military and law enforcement agencies.

Mr. Bush vetoed a bill that would have explicitly prohibited the agency from using such interrogation methods, which include waterboarding, a technique in which restrained prisoners are threatened with drowning and that has been the subject of intense criticism at home and abroad.

Mr. Bush’s veto deepens his battle with increasingly assertive Democrats in Congress over issues at the heart of his legacy. As his presidency winds down, he has made it clear he does not intend to bend in this or other confrontations with Congress on issues from the war in Iraq to contempt charges against his chief of staff, Joshua B. Bolten, and former counsel, Harriet E. Miers.

[yoe]

Mr. Bush’s veto deepens his battle with increasingly assertive Democrats in Congress...."; I find it interesting how the "assertive Democrats", mostly Socialist Democrats who are a mirror of past socialist, anarchists, progressives, radicals, and activists who are never happy with their lives....they always want what someone else has and they don't want God in their lives, will therefore deny you yours. History has never produced one successful revolution these unhappy people keep proffering - just enormous piles of dead humans who believed in God and another way of life and willing to let others believe in the secular way.

[DennisR]

A major characteristic of liberals/Democrats/Communists/Socialists/racists - they are typically angry people.

[max americana]

It’s the NYT...get with the socialist program. Anything that embarrases or makes us look weak, they are sure to print it.

I knew that when Bushy vetoed the waterboarding bill that the tinfoil hat army will go ape shiite.

[I_Like_Spam]

The Democrats are just posturing here for the benefit of their base, they knew the veto was coming.

Seems like a good time for the GOP to make political hay on the issue of national security, and explain this issue to the electorate as well as get the liberals “on the record” with their votes.

[mkjessup]

Too bad El Presidente wasn’t able to find that veto pen back when McCain-Feingold was crossing his desk.

[DTogo]

So he’s for water boarding but not for drilling in ANWAR when oil’s at $105/bbl...

[ronnie raygun]

Once again congress has our backs in the fight against subhumans and thier culture of death. The lunacy in this country has gone far beyond the logic of normal thinking people. There is a person at your front door with a gun who says he will kill you and everyone in your family, you open the door and invite him in so you can talk about what he is about to do. Simply mind boggling! Liberalism is truely a mental disorder!

[TigersEye]

The next President will sign it.

[muawiyah]

Fur Shur, the New York Times is weak on national security.

[Know et al]

Nancy Pelosi screams: What kind of tortured logic is that?