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echo: barktopus
to: Phil Payne
from: Adam
date: 2006-09-15 11:00:28
subject: Re: Even the GOP can`t swallow everthing

From: Adam 

Phil Payne wrote:
> http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060914/D8K4UC7O1.html
>
> "The president's measure would go further than the Senate package in
> allowing classified evidence to be withheld from defendants in terror
> trials, using coerced testimony and protecting CIA and other U.S.
> interrogators against prosecution for using methods that may violate the
> Geneva Conventions."
>
> Run that one past me again - I thought we were talking about America.
>

I can't see how the protecting interrogators one could fly anyway w/o
withdrawing from the CAT & that would have severe political
repercussions.

Adam

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