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Eric Holder: “It simply should not be the policy or the practice of the United States of America to turn over a prisoner, a captured…”

On the recordJanuary 14, 2009
It simply should not be the policy or the practice of the United States of America to turn over a prisoner, a captured person, to a nation where we suspect or have reason to believe that that person will be tortured.
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Eric Holder
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Holder emphasizes the U.S. policy against torture and the importance of not extraditing prisoners to torturous conditions.

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