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HLS: Harvard Law Professors Urge Congress to Review Interrogation Policy and Hold Executive Branch Accountable
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I was wondering when this was going to start. And it has. I hate to say, but I'm not surprised. Relevant Link Permanent link posted by bytehead @ 6/18/2004 07:06:00 PMHarvard Law Professors Urge Congress to Review Interrogation Policy and Hold Executive Branch Accountable
Post Date: June 16, 2004
A group of more than 450 professors of law, international relations, and public policy--led by Harvard Law School faculty members--today sent a letter calling on Congress to hold accountable, through impeachment and removal if appropriate, civilian officials from the top of the Executive Branch on down for policies developed at high levels that have facilitated the recent abuses at Abu Ghraib. The letter also calls on Congress to take primary responsibility for any policy on coercive interrogation employed by the United States.
In asking Congress to assess Executive Branch accountability, the letter says: "a growing body of evidence indicates that the abuses practiced on detainees under American control are the consequence of policies developed at the highest levels in the months and years immediately preceding the scandal." It argues that prosecution of lower level personnel "while necessary, is clearly insufficient."
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