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John Conyers: “I do, because they said they were taking people walking off the streets, taxi drivers, in-laws of somebody who may be…”

On the recordMay 17, 2004
I do, because they said they were taking people walking off the streets, taxi drivers, in-laws of somebody who may be more seriously implicated, and that they were bringing in an expert from Guantanamo. They do not make them enemy combatants so that these folks have no rights under the Geneva Conventions whatsoever, and the whole thing reads like an absolute nightmare. They are naming names and they are naming strategies. This so-called, what do we call it, the secret access program.
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John Conyers
Democratic · Michigan

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Discussing concerns about the treatment of individuals in a secret access program.

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