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| Bush denies US torture use claims |
| US President George W Bush has rejected claims his administration uses torture and defended the CIA's methods.
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 6-October-2007
2:45:15 AM |
| He was responding to a New York Times report that the US Justice Department secretly authorised harsh interrogation techniques for terror suspects in 2005.
The alleged 2005 memo came months after a 2004 opinion in which the Justice Department declared torture abhorrent.
Mr Bush said: "This government does not torture people. We stick to US law and our international obligations."
According to the New York Times, the interrogation techniques endorsed by a 2005 Justice Department memo were some of the harshest ever used by the CIA.
They included head-slapping, exposure to freezing temperatures and simulated drowning, known as water-boarding.
'Protecting the people'
The 2005 legal opinion was reportedly issued shortly after former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales took over the Justice Department.
A second memo issued later that year advised that none of the techniques in use by the CIA would breach anti-torture legislation before Congress that barred "cruel, inhuman and degrading" treatment of prisoners, the New York Times said.
Its report also cited officials saying that the CIA had returned in summer 2007 to its practice of holding terror suspects in secret prisons overseas.
In a hastily arranged press appearance on Friday, Mr Bush defended his administration's methods and said interrogations were carried out by "highly-trained professionals".
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