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United States President George W. Bush in Oval Office meeting2. Wide of Bush in meeting3. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, US President:\"I have put this programme in place for a reason and that is to better protect the American...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. United States President George W. Bush in Oval Office meeting\u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide of Bush in meeting\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, US President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I have put this programme in place for a reason and that is to better protect the American people. And when we find somebody who may have information regarding a potential attack on America, you bet we're going to detain them, and you bet we're going to question them. Because the American people expect us to find out information, actionable intelligence so we can them, help protect them. That's our job.\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide of meeting\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, US President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"This government does not torture people. We stick to US law and our international obligations.\"\u003cbr/\u003e6. Bush speaking, zoom in\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, US President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"There are highly trained professionals questioning these extremists and terrorists. In other words we got professionals who are trained in this kind of work to get information that will protect the American people and by the way we have gotten information from these high value detainees that have helped protect you. And finally, the techniques that we use have been fully disclosed to appropriate members of the United States Congress. The American people expect their government to take action to protect them from further attack. And that's exactly what this government is doing and that's exactly what we'll continue to do.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Wide of meeting \u003cbr/\u003e9. Mid of White House spokeswoman Dana Perino at briefing with journalists \u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dana Perino, White House spokeswoman:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We do not torture anybody, no matter what they would do to us the laws are that we do not torture and many people, there are many safeguards in all of these programmes.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e11. Cutaway journalists\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dana Perino, White House spokeswoman:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well, what would make it better? What would make it better? That we should tell everybody exactly what we have? You want to know the techniques that we use so we can tell exactly Al Qaida what we are gong to do? That is absurd. \u003cbr/\u003e(Reporter: No, but these members of Congress, not us, these members of Congress have security clearance and they see classified information all the time.) \u003cbr/\u003e\"And the intelligence community was fully briefed.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e(Reporter: They say they did not,  they were not fully briefed. You are saying fully briefed. That is your definition of fully briefed just like it is your definition of torture. Jay Rockefeller, the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, has said they haven't seen the memos. So how can they be fully briefed if they haven't seen the memos? And why did you keep them secret if there is nothing in there you are trying to hide?) \u003cbr/\u003e\"The memos, they are applications that fall within the law, which is to not torture.\" \u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide of briefing\u003cbr/\u003eUnited States President George W. Bush defended his administration's detention and interrogation policies for terror suspects on Friday, saying they are both successful and lawful.\u003cbr/\u003e\"When we find somebody who may have information regarding an attack on America, you bet we're going to detain them, and you bet we're going to question them,\" he said during a hastily called appearance in his official Oval Office.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The American people expect us to find out information, his actionable intelligence, so we can help them, help protect them. That's our job.\"\u003cbr/\u003eBush was referring to a report on two secret memos in 2005 that authorised extreme interrogation tactics against terror suspects. \u003cbr/\u003e\"This government does not torture,\" the president said.\u003cbr/\u003eThe two Justice Department legal opinions were disclosed in Thursday's editions of The New York Times, which reported that the first 2005 legal opinion authorised the use of head slaps, freezing temperatures and simulated drownings, known as water boarding, while interrogating terror suspects. \u003cbr/\u003eIt was issued shortly after then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales took over the Justice Department, the newspaper reported.\u003cbr/\u003eThat secret opinion, which explicitly allowed using the painful methods in combination, came months after a December 2004 opinion in which the Justice Department publicly declared torture abhorrent and the administration seemed to back away from claiming authority for such practices.\u003cbr/\u003eA second Justice opinion was issued later in 2005, just as Congress was working on an anti-torture bill. \u003cbr/\u003eThat opinion declared that none of the CIA's interrogation practices would violate the rules in the legislation banning \"cruel, inhuman and degrading\" treatment of detainees, The Times said, citing interviews with unnamed current and former officials.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We stick to US law and international obligations,\" the president said on Friday.\u003cbr/\u003eHe took no questions after making the short statement.\u003cbr/\u003eWhite House and Justice Department press officers have said the 2005 opinions did not reverse the 2004 policy.\u003cbr/\u003eBush noted that \"highly trained professionals\" conduct any questioning. \u003cbr/\u003e\"And by the way,\" he said, \"we have gotten information from these high-value detainees that have helped protect you.\"\u003cbr/\u003eHe also said the techniques used by the United States \"have been fully disclosed to appropriate members of the United States Congress,\" an indirect slap at the torrent of criticism that has flowed from the Democratic-controlled Congress since the memos' disclosure.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The American people expect their government to take action to protect them from further attack,\" Bush said. \u003cbr/\u003e\"And that's exactly what this government is doing. And that's exactly what we'll continue to do.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe 2005 opinions approved by Gonzales remain in effect despite efforts by Congress and the courts to limit interrogation practices used by the government in response to the 11 September 2007 terrorist attacks. \u003cbr/\u003eThe authorisations came after the withdrawal of an earlier classified Justice opinion, issued in 2002, that had allowed certain aggressive interrogation practices so long as they stopped short of producing pain equivalent to experiencing organ failure or death. \u003cbr/\u003eThat controversial memo was withdrawn in June 2004.\u003cbr/\u003eThe dispute may come down to how the Bush administration defines torture, or whether it allowed US Interrogators to interpret anti-torture laws beyond legal limits.\u003cbr/\u003eCIA spokesman George Little said the agency sought guidance from the Bush administration and Congress to make sure its program to detain and interrogate terror suspects followed US law.\u003cbr/\u003eLater, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said President Bush had made the statement because he wanted to repeat to the American public that his administration does not torture and that there were safeguards in the interrogation programmes.\u003cbr/\u003eIn a contentious exchange with reporters, Perino insisted that details of the secret memo would not be made public.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well, what would make it better? What would make it better? That we should tell everybody exactly what we have? You want to know the techniques that we use so we can tell exactly Al Qaida what we are gong to do? That is absurd,\" she said.\u003cbr/\u003eCongressional Democrats disagree that there is sufficient clarity on the matter, and are demanding to see the memos.\u003cbr/\u003eOne reporter at the briefing, quoting Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, asked why the intelligence community claims not to have seen the memos containing briefings on the policies of the US administration when dealing with detained terrorism suspects. \u003cbr/\u003ePerino reiterated that \"The memos, they are applications that fall within the law, which is to not torture.\"\u003cbr/\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='action-container flex justify-between'\u003e\n\u003cbutton aria-expanded='false' aria-label='Read more description' class='rp-full-description' type='button'\u003e\n\u003ci class='fai fa-solid fa-align-left'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003cspan id='read_more'\u003eRead More\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/button\u003e\n\u003cdiv 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