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Press Briefing by Tony Snow 10/17/06 (Topic: Detainee Interrogation)
— Tuesday, October 17, 2006 — Q I'm trying to develop some sense of a way to get my arms around this. If you have a police department in the United States conducting interrogations, and they police themselves, and the public never has any idea about what's going on behind their closed doors -- of interrogation techniques, there probably wouldn't -- it doesn't smack of something that's American. It probably runs -- and to question those police officers is not an un-American thing, is it, to question -- MR. SNOW: Well, as you know, there are within police departments internal affairs departments which take a look at things, and there are analogous departments within the military that take a look at these things. But again, if you have run-of-the-mill prisoners, these things may apply. Jim, these people are so bad that their host governments don't want them back. I mean, so the point is you're dealing with very dangerous characters. It's a very small group of people we're talking about. And they have not traditionally been accorded exactly the same level of transparency. However, what they have been guaranteed are their full rights. They have legal representation, they have the ability to appeal in court, they have the ability to appeal about the admissibility of evidence. They have all these rights. I mean, all of this is in the law. And furthermore, if somebody is construed to have gone over the line in the questioning, that is something that also can be adjudicated. Q But that's the difference here, is the quality of the detainee we're talking about? MR. SNOW: It's the unique nature of the detainees. Q -- that allows for a different procedure -- MR. SNOW: It's a different procedure, but it is the same effort to guarantee representation and human rights. White House Press Corps | Press Briefing | Tony Snow | News Media | Bush Administration | Interrogation
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