FCNL's Rights and Liberties Weekly

Volume 3, No. 10
November 14, 2005

Interrogation: In the first week of November, the Department of Defense
(DoD) issued a new directive on intelligence interrogation. The
directive applies to all DoD personel and contractors, but not other
agencies such as the CIA. The directive states that, "All captured or
detained personel shall be treated humanely, and all intelligence
interrogations, debriefings, or tactical questioning to gain
intelligence from captured or detained personnel shall be conducted
humanely, in accordance with applicable law and policy." Read the full
directive here: http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/dod/d3115_09.pdf

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Freedom to Read: Congressional civil liberties champions in Congress,
stymied in efforts to move bills, have increasingly turned to spending
bills as the vehicle for policy-changing legislation. Rep. Sanders'
(VT) H.R. 1157, the Freedom to Read Protection Act, was successfully
attached to the Science-State-Justice Subcommittee appropriations bill
in the House, but now has suffered defeat in conference committee. See
the news from the American Library Association:
http://ala.org/ala/washoff/washnews/2005ab/107nov04.htm

Torture Policy: The Vice President has been putting significant effort
to create an exemption for the CIA from Sen. McCain's anti-torture
amendment. The Washington Post reports:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/06/AR200511
0601281.html

National Security Letters: The FBI has dramatically stepped up its use
of these secret requests for information, now over 30,000 in the past
year, a one-hundred fold increase. These letters permit the FBI to
demand information about third party consumers from service providers.
This new disclosure about the number of national security letters
challenges the FBI's assertion that NSL's are not being used solely for
anti-terrorism efforts. Read the full report from the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/05/AR200511
0501366.html


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