Mike Levin: “That is exactly what we provide in this amendment. That is the…”

On the recordNovember 17, 2011

That is exactly what we provide in this amendment. That is the question Senator McCain just asked: If this administration or any administration decides that they want to provide the civilians with opportunity to interrogate, for whatever length of time they want, they are going to set the procedures under this language in our bill; is that not correct? The President will determine the procedures. If he wants those procedures to be civilian control until some point, that is going to be up to the President. We may disagree with that or not.

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Democratic · California

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Nov 17, 2011

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