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<p><font size="2">House Committee<br></font><font size="5">Detainee Interrogation Rules</font><br>Judiciary, Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties<br>Washington, District of Columbia (United States) <br>Legal scholars testified about the detention to terror suspects by the U.S., treatment of detainees, and legal opinions received by the Bush administration on interrogation methods for detainees. The subcommittee also discussed potential Bush administration witnesses in future hearing on detainee treatment and interrogation techniques at facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. They voted to authorize a subpoena for Vice President Cheney's chief of staff and former legal counsel, David S. Addington. </p>
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<div><a href="http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dprogram&record=564119912">http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dprogram&record=564119912</a></div>
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<div>Philippe Sands, Professor, University College, London, Law, testified in the US Congressional House hearing available for viewing in the C-Span video above, that those in the US government involved in the torture agenda of the Bush administration may be prosecuted for war crimes in other nations, even if the US grants immunity, which the Military Commissions Act of 2006 has already done. Article below by Philippe Sands on some of these issues from April, 2008:</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/19/humanrights.interrogationtechniques">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/19/humanrights.interrogationtechniques</a></div>
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<div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</div>