US House votes to outlaw CIA waterboarding
The Democrat-led US House of Representatives has voted to outlaw harsh interrogation methods that the CIA has used against suspected terrorists, such as the practice known as 'waterboarding'.
On a 222-199 vote, the House approved a measure to require intelligence agents to comply with the Army Field Manual, which meets the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of war prisoners and prohibits torture.
The measure passed amid a congressional probe into the recent disclosure that the CIA destroyed videotapes of Al Qaeda suspects undergoing waterboarding, a simulated drowning.
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