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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-30-06 09:33 PM
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Detainee Memo Created Divide in White House
October 1, 2006

In June 2005, two senior national security officials in the Bush administration came together to propose a sweeping new approach to the growing problems the United States was facing with the detention, interrogation and prosecution of terrorism suspects.

In a nine-page memorandum, the two officials, Gordon R. England, the acting deputy secretary of defense, and Philip D. Zelikow, the counselor of the State Department, urged the administration to seek Congressional approval for its detention policies.

They called for a return to the minimum standards of treatment in the Geneva Conventions and for eventually closing the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The time had come, they said, for suspects in the 9/11 plot to be taken out of their secret prison cells and tried before military tribunals.

The recommendations of the paper, which has not previously been disclosed, included several of the major policy shifts that President Bush laid out in a White House address on Sept. 6, five officials who read the document said. But the memorandum’s fate underscores the deep, long-running conflicts over detention policy that continued to divide the administration even as it pushed new legislation through Congress last week on the handling of terrorism suspects.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/washington/01detain.html?hp&ex=1159675200&en=b127f6f57c242095&ei=5094&partner=homepage

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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-30-06 09:36 PM
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1. When did this get revealed....just recently?
It seems that more of this revelations are coming to light...is it just me? Or are these coming out at a quicker pace..
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-30-06 09:39 PM
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3. It sure feels like the dam has burst
doesn't it?

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SaveOurDemocracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-30-06 09:39 PM
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2. Oh my ...

goodness gracious, RumDumb had another hissy fit:

When the paper first circulated in the upper reaches of the administration, two of those officials said, it so angered Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld that his aides gathered up copies of the document and had at least some of them shredded.

“It was not in step with the secretary of defense or the president,” said one Defense Department official who, like many others, would discuss the internal deliberations only on condition of anonymity. “It was clear that Rumsfeld was very unhappy.”

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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 01:25 AM
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5. Rumsfeld needs to away from sharp objects.
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 07:27 AM
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7. Isn't it great that the grown-ups are in charge?
:sarcasm:
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bigbrother05 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-30-06 11:10 PM
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4. thanks
The element of the new legislation that raised the sharpest criticism among legal scholars and human rights advocates last week was the scaling back of the habeas corpus right of terrorism suspects to challenge their detention in the federal courts. But in dozens of high-level meetings on detention policy, officials said, that provision was scarcely even discussed.
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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-01-06 04:28 AM
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6. 4th recommendation.
:kick:
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