No more waterboarding?

Think Progress reports:

In a 222-199 vote, the House today passed the FY2008 Intelligence Authorization bill, which bans waterboarding and confines the CIA “to the interrogation tactics permitted by the Army Field Manual on Human Intelligence Collector Operations. Rep. Jerrold Nadler’s (D-NY) remarked, “[This] means no more torture, no more waterboarding, no more clever wordplay, no more evasive answers, no more dishonesty.”

Loosely translated, and if the past week is any indication, this means that Democrats will swiftly cave to a filibuster/veto threat by the Republicans, and remove any references to waterboarding and the Army Field Manual from the authorization bill in short order.

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