The United States may use waterboarding to question terrorism suspects in the future, White House spokesman Tony Fratto said Wednesday.
"It will depend upon circumstances," Fratto said.
"The president will listen to the considered judgment of the professionals in the intelligence community and the judgment of the attorney general in terms of the legal consequences of employing a particular technique," Fratto said.
The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill in December last year to prohibit the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from using "waterboarding" and other harsh tactics to interrogate terrorist suspects.
However, the White House has threatened to veto the bill, noting that they disagree with more than 11 areas of the bill, especially opposing restricting the CIA to use interrogation methods approved by the U.S. military in 2006.
Source: Xinhua
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