Rep. Eshoo - Overriding President's Veto of the Torture Ban

Today, the House is voting on overriding the President's veto of the Intelligence Authorization bill (H.R. 2082). The President vetoed the bill over the provision that extends to U.S. intelligence agencies and personnel the current prohibitions in the Army Field Manual against waterboarding and other torture.

Failing to prohibit in statute the use of waterboarding and other torture undermines our nation's moral authority, puts American military and diplomatic personnel at risk, and weakens the quality of intelligence. Indeed, in 2007, General David Petraeus wrote, "Some may argue that we would be more effective if we sanctioned torture or other expedient methods to obtain information from the enemy. That would be wrong. Beyond the basic fact that such actions are illegal, history shows that they also are frequently neither useful nor necessary." Rep. Anna Eshoo speaks in favor of the override.

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• Democrats
• Congress
• Torture
• Ban
• Override
• Veto
• Anna
• Eshoo
• Intelligence
• Authorization

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THE PRESIDENT ORDERED AN ILLEGAL ACT! A FEDERAL CRIME! AN INTERNATIONAL CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY. A WAR CRIME!

I P E A C H

I N D I C T

I M P R I S O N!

or R E S I G N!

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@TheArmydude050290 did not notice the vid is fake!

anyway.. a WAR-CRIME is a WAR-CRIME!

[TheArmydude050290]

@log140 You do realize that this video is a fake right? You can compare the cut audio to the picture screening and see that plain as day.

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TORTURE IS A WAR-CRIME!! Bush just proved: you can be a war-criminal and get away with it... and USA has lost the moral superiority over all those dictators in the world.. sad times ahead for all of us!

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A wonderful speech.