Who needs any rules??

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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.

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