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Who needs any rules??
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 11:27:02 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: David Lesher <wb8foz () nrk com> Date: December 17, 2005 11:06:14 AM EST To: dave () farber net Subject: Who needs any rules?? Reply-To: wb8foz () nrk com Prof F: While we are focused on torture and NSA actions, look what's going by, un-discussed:<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/17/politics/17detain.html? adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1134795778-pqyqYjWjcuAtPA0dLs0HNg&pagewanted=print>
December 17, 2005 Lawmakers Back Use of Evidence Coerced From Detainees By ERIC SCHMITT and TIM GOLDEN WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 - House and Senate negotiators agreed Friday to a measure that would enable the government to keep prisoners at Guantánamo Bay indefinitely on the basis of evidence obtained by coercive interrogations. The provision, which has been a subject of extensive bargaining with the Bush administration, could allow evidence that would not be permitted in civilian courts to be admissable in deciding whether to hold detainees at the American military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. In recent days, the Congressional negotiators quietly eliminated an explicit ban on the use of such material in an earlier version of the legislation. .... ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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