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Dear Sheldon...

 

I agree completely...

 

I just did a quick google search on " H.R. 10 " and came up with this

interesting article...

 

Because it is so short I thought I would copy the whole article,

which is interesting, and the name of the sponsor is in the first

paragraph...

 

I got this from:

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/9/29/15276/3184

 

House Bill HR 10 permits sending certain suspects abroad for

torture? (MLP)

 

By greenrd

Thu Sep 30th, 2004 at 07:56:53 AM EST

 

Tucked away in Section 3032 and 3033 of H.R. 10, the 9/11

Recommendations Implementation Act of 2004, is an " anti-terrorist "

provision that was never recommended by the 9/11 Commission. Indeed,

it is the very opposite of a Commission recommendation - as noted in

a critical press release about the bill from Rep. Edward Markey (D-

MA), quoted here. The bill was introduced by House Speaker Dennis

Hastert (R-IL).

 

This provision retroactively establishes a loophole legitimising the

practice of extraditing " suspected terrorists " to another country

where torture is legal or unprosecuted, for the purpose of having

them tortured there.

 

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This implies that even innocent people may be wrongly suspected of

terrorism - or even cynically falsely accused of terrorism for

interrogation purposes - and sent to other countries to be tortured.

Indeed, there is terrifying evidence that this has already happened.

What the provision appears to do is to give the Administration legal

carte blanche to do this again and again - because there is to be no

judicial oversight over the regulations determining who is excluded

from the protections of the UN Convention on Torture, as adopted

into US law.

 

Of course, the exclusion of any person, innocent or not, would be

controversial, even if there were judicial review.

 

The story broke in " the blogosphere " and does not appear to have

been covered anywhere in the mainstream media - judging by Google

News - at the time of writing. It was based on a press release put

out by Massachusetts Congressman Edward Markey.

 

Here is a letter which one blogger wrote to urge his Congressional

rep to support an amendment to this bill, striking out this right-to-

torture provision.

 

 

, sheldon gesensway

<sheldon33132> wrote:

>

> Hello,

> It would be helpful to name the sponsors of these

> bills.Thank you for all your past information.sheldon