Ending Abusive Detention and Interrogation Practices:
Senator Feinstein today introduced new comprehensive legislation to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and impose broad reforms in America’s interrogation and detention practices. The legislation is cosponsored by Senator John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).
Specifically, the legislation, called the “Lawful Interrogation and Detention Act of 2009,” provides for a legal, effective, and humane system of gathering intelligence and holding suspected terrorists. It ends the practices of indefinite and secret detention and coercive interrogations that have been used by the CIA and at Guantanamo since 2002.
“Coercive interrogations and secret detentions have brought shame on our nation and made the war on terror harder to fight,” Senator Feinstein said. “They violate U.S. and international law, and our treaty obligations. We need to return to the national norms and values that have driven the United States to greatness since the days of its founding, but which have been tarnished badly during the past seven years. This legislation will do exactly that, and advances policies that I believe are consistent with the policies and intentions of President-elect Obama.”
The legislation has four key provisions:
* Requires the closure of the detention facilities at Guantanamo within one year. All individuals held at Guantanamo must be:
o Charged with crimes and tried in the United States through the federal criminal justice or the military justice system;
o Transferred to an international tribunal, if one has jurisdiction to hold trials for such individuals;
o Transferred back to their native country or to the custody of another country;
o If the other options can’t be followed and the individual is determined to pose no security threat, released; or
o Held in accordance with the law of armed conflict.
* Requires the CIA and all other intelligence agencies to use only the 19 specific interrogation techniques that are authorized by the Army Field Manual on Human Intelligence Collector Operations. This requirement would put intelligence interrogations under the same legal requirement for all Department of Defense agencies, thus creating a clear, single standard across the U.S. Government;
* Prohibits the CIA from using private contractors to conduct interrogations of detainees; and
* Requires the intelligence community to notify the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) of any detainees being held, and to provide the ICRC with access to those detainees.
Closing Down Club Gitmo
Originally Posted by Evil_Maniac From Mars
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Re: Closing Down Club Gitmo
Not even close, there's a difference to be something that is a threat to human rights and the full scale indiscriminate murder of a race.
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