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  • (Lindh, a young American who had become a Muslim and had recently been captured in northern Afghanistan, bore the designation Detainee 001.)

    The Green Light Sands, Philippe 2008

  • Second Circuit Hears Arguments in Detainee Lawsuit Against Ashcroft:

    Civil Rights 2006

  • Now comes Time Magazine, anxious to evoke sympathy for a man they call Detainee 063 – that same individual who would have been cutting somebody’s throat with a box cutter on board Flight 93 had Jose Melendez-Perez not sent him packing for Saudi Arabia.

    Michael Smerconish: A Timely Conversation with Donald Rumsfeld 2008

  • And I think that that's why we passed a thing called the Detainee Treatment Act, which prohibited cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment.

    CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2009 2009

  • We passed, as you know, some months ago a thing called the Detainee Treatment Act, which prohibits any cruel, inhumane treatment, and in this legislation we made it very clear that that still pertained.

    Philip Giraldi: John McCain and Torture 2008

  • Because Congress has set up this system in 2006, with this law known as the Detainee Treatment Act. What the court has said, this system is no good.

    CNN Transcript Jun 12, 2008 2008

  • Another irony lies in the fact that the congressional rules for interrogations that the Bush administration now seeks to embrace in the new legislation -- the so-called Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 -- were vigorously opposed by the White House before their adoption by Congress.

    Does McCain realize he was had? 2006

  • Meaning that the so-called Detainee Treatment Act was not something that should be applied.

    CNN Transcript Jun 29, 2006 2006

  • And we believe a good way to go is to use the amendment that we worked with John McCain on, called the Detainee Treatment Act, as the basis for clarity for people we would ask to question the enemy.

    CNN Transcript Sep 15, 2006 2006

  • (See also the detailed interrogation log on al-Qahtani, referred to as Detainee 063.)

    Protecting the Torturers: Bad Faith and Distortions From the American Psychological Association 2006

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