The White House has threaten to veto an anti-torture bill that will limit what interrogation techniques the CIA can use, the Senate passed on Wednesday but the white house can still veto the bill. The bill which is actually just part of a bill authoring intelligence activities for 2008 limits the CIA to 19 interrogation techniques outlined in the Army field manual. This would mean that the technique known as waterboarding that simulates drowning will no longer be legal to use.
The bill will also not allow the CIA to use sensory deprivation (e.g. leaving someone in a pitch black room). CIA Director General claims however that waterboarding has not been used since 2003 and he prohibited its use in 2006.
Despite Waterboarding been a torture technique that the media has focused on there are still a number of different methods that are believed to be used by the CIA such as head slapping, which is just that, a violent and hard slap to the head, and using freezing temperatures, this could involve leaving someone naked in a room or standing them on a block of ice. All of these torture methods would be illegal under international law.
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