- On 20 July 2007, U.S. President George W. Bush signed an executive order banning torture during interrogation of terror suspects.
- On 14 September 2007, ABC News reported that sometime in 2006 CIA Director Michael Hayden asked for and received permission from the
Bush administration to ban the use of waterboarding in CIA interrogations, although a CIA spokesperson declined to discuss interrogation techniques, which he or she said "have been and continue to be lawful." The sources of this information were current and former CIA officials. ABC reported that waterboarding had been authorized by a 2002 Presidential finding.[130] On 5 November 2007, The Wall Street Journal reported that its "sources confirm... that the CIA has only used this interrogation method against
three terrorist detainees and not since 2003.
- Both houses of the United States Congress approved a bill by February 2008 that would
ban waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods, the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008.
- President Barack Obama
banned the use of waterboarding and several other interrogation methods in January 2009.
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