Amendment No. 32 offered by Mr. Holt: At the end of subtitle E of title X, add the following new section: SEC. 1055. REQUIREMENT FOR VIDEOTAPING RECORDINGS OF STRATEGIC INTERROGATIONS AND OTHER PERTINENT INTERACTIONS AMONG DETAINEES OR PRISONERS IN THE CUSTODY OF OR UNDER THE EFFECTIVE CONTROL OF THE UNITED STATES AND MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES, INTELLIGENCE OPERATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES, AND CONTRACTORS OF THE UNITED STATES. (a) In General.--In accordance with the Geneva Conventions of 1949, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and prohibitions against any cruel, unusual, and inhuman treatment or punishment under the Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, the President shall take such actions as are necessary to ensure that any strategic interrogation or other pertinent interaction between an individual who is a detainee or prisoner in the custody or under the effective control of the Armed Forces pursuant to a strategic interrogation, or other pertinent interaction, for the purpose of gathering intelligence and a member of the Armed Forces, an intelligence operative of the United States, or a contractor of the United States, is videotaped.
Steven Holt: “Amendment No. 32 offered by Mr. Holt: At the end of subtitle E of title X, add the following new section: SEC. 1055.…”
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Proposing an amendment related to the videotaping of strategic interrogations and interactions with detainees.
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