Senate intelligence panel votes to limit CIA interrogations, ban waterboarding

WASHINGTON, April 30 (AP):

The Senate Intelligence Committee voted Tuesday to limit CIA interrogators to techniques approved by the military, which would effectively bar them from waterboarding prisoners, congressional officials said. The vote, taken in secret as the committee debated legislation to authorize money for intelligence operations in 2009, marks at least the second attempt by intelligence overseers in Congress to regulate CIA questioning of detainees. Committee officials refused to comment because deliberations over the bill were continuing. The bill was expected to be completed this week.