NPC Newsmaker Program - Guantanamo Accountability: Former Army JAG Prosecutor, Human Rights, Law Experts
Posted on: Tuesday, 13 October 2009, 10:09 CDT
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Former Army JAG Prosecutor Lt. Col. Darrel J. Vandeveld, who resigned his Guantanamo post in protest, and other law and human rights experts will outline ways to hold former administration officials accountable for what they call a policy sanctioning torture at a National Press Club Newsmaker press conference at 10 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 16, in the Murrow Room, 13th floor, National Press Building, 529 14th St., N.W., Washington, D.C.
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Participants include Vandeveld; Scott Horton, professor of humanitarian law and international business at Columbia Law School; Elisa Massimino, CEO of Human Rights First; and Bob Edgar, president of Common Cause.
They will explore what they assert was an effort over the last decade by a close circle of insiders in the Bush Administration to develop policies and a legal framework to systematically circumvent the requirements of the Geneva Conventions and U.S. law regarding the treatment, interrogation, and trial of foreign detainees.
Lt. Col. Vandeveld will speak about his experience at Guantanamo Bay Cuba as a prosecutor for the Office of Military Commissions, why he resigned that post and his recommendations for restoring the rule of law and integrity to the military justice system.
Massimino will analyze military justices reforms in the FY 2010 Defense Authorization bill before Congress. Horton will review the various U.S. and international legal venues for accountability.
SOURCE National Press Club
Source: PR Newswire
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