A casual onlooker might have understandably concluded that the intelligence bill recently vetoed by President Bush was crafted with the intention of prohibiting U.S. intelligence agencies from ever water-boarding terrorists or using other aggressive interrogation techniques not expressly approved by the United States Army Field Manual.

That conclusion would be wrong.

The real intention of the bill's architects was not to conclusively prohibit water-boarding or aggressive interro ...

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