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Patrick Leahy: Mr. President, this administration has yet to come clean to the Congress or the American people in connection with the…

On the recordSeptember 27, 2006
Mr. President, this administration has yet to come clean to the Congress or the American people in connection with the secret legal justifications it has generated and secret practices it has employed in detaining and interrogating hundreds if not thousands of people in the war on terror. Even they cannot dismiss the practices at Guantanamo as the actions of a few 'bad apples.' With Senate adoption of the anti-torture amendment last year and the recent adoption of the Army Field Manual, I had hoped that 5 years of administration resistance to the rule of law and to the U.S. military abiding by its Geneva obligations might be drawing to a close.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

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Addressing concerns about the administration's legal justifications for detention and interrogation practices.

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