Bush Threatens Veto of Intelligence Budget: Too Much Oversight
Other useful features of the House bill governing the next intelligence budget that the president opposes: Other provisions in the House bill that provoked a veto threat include a prohibition on the use of contractors to interrogate detainees and a demand that the CIA inspector general audit all covert operations every three years. The White House directed another veto threat at a perfectly sensible provision in the Senate version of the bill: [U]nlike the House version, the Senate's legislation includes a provision by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., that would limit the CIA and FBI to interrogation tactics listed in the publicly available Army Field Manual on Interrogation. A similar limitation on interrogation techniques prompted a veto of an earlier intelligence bill.
Bush Threatens Veto of Intelligence Budget: Too Much Oversight | 20 comments (20 topical, 0 hidden)
Bush Threatens Veto of Intelligence Budget: Too Much Oversight | 20 comments (20 topical, 0 hidden)
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