Executive order 693 general services administration. As part of this order obama rescinded executive order 440. The us has not officially used socalled enhanced interrogation techniques since january 22, 2009 when president obama signed executive order 491 requiring the cia to use only the 19 interrogation methods outlined in the united states army fie. Executive order 440 of july 20, 2007 interpretation of the geneva conventions common article 3 as applied to a program of detention and interrogation operated by the central intelligence agency. All executive directives, orders, and regulations inconsistent with this order, including but not limited to those issued to or by the central intelligence agency cia from september 11, 2001, to january 20, 2009, concerning detention or the interrogation of detained individuals, are revoked to the extent of their. Mar 14, 20 upon taking office in january 2009, president obama issued executive order 491ensuring lawful interrogations. Coercive interrogation techniques 662 words bartleby. Executive order 440 federation of american scientists. President obama issues executive order 491, rescinding executive order 440, banning the cias detention authority, and restricting the cia to interrogation techniques.
Marc thiessen takes issue with executive order 491 ensuring lawful interrogations, which obama issued days after he took office in january 2009. Executive order 683 amendments to executive orders 11030, 653, and 673 by the authority vested in me as president by the constitution and the laws of the united states of america, it is hereby ordered as follows. The torture memo obama never rescinded shadowproof. This is a new york form and can be use in appellate division appellate courts.
Executive order 11030 of june 19, 1962, as amended preparation, presentation, filing, and publication of. Executive order 491 ensuring lawful interrogations. Obamas executive order on interrogations says all agencies of the government have to follow the army field manual when interrogating detainees, meaning the cia can no longer used socalled enhanced interrogation techniques, which have included waterboarding, the use of dogs in questioning, and stripping prisoners. Executive order 493 wikisource, the free online library. We write to urge you to use the occasion of the 5 th anniversary of your executive order 491 ensuring lawful interrogations to publicly support the release of the senate select committee on intelligences study of the former cia detention and. Executive order 12333 1981 as amended by executive orders 284 2003, 355 2004, and 470 2008. On 5th anniversary of executive order ending use of. Under torture at some point everyone claims to have. Jan 30, 2017 yates said in a memo monday that she is not convinced that trumps order is lawful, or that its defense is consistent with the departments obligation to always seek justice and stand for what is.
Considerations around column order in indexes and sorts. This piece of legislation widely overrides a previous executive order, 491, which was effected. The executive order 522 seeks to improve the delivery of high quality government services by establishing. Press releases united states senator for california. Legal borderlands abstract on january 22, 2009, newly inaugurated president barack obama implemented executive order 492. With respect to the program addressed in this order, the function. The order, one of the first acts of the obama administration, initiated several important changes to u. Aug 26, 2014 query with a range of values in the predicate and an order by. Yet it is common knowledge that basically nothing has changed. In 2008, nrcat worked urging presidential candidates, members of congress, the presidentelect and the president himself to issue an executive order halting torture.
The history of the cia detention and interrogation program. On january 22, 2009 president obama officially put an end to secret prisons and torture by issuing executive order 491 ensuring lawful interrogations. The order calls for effectiveness of human intelligence gathering, to promote the safe, lawful, and humane treatment of individuals in united states custody. Executive order 491, issued by barack obama on january 22, 2009 two days after obamas inauguration revoked executive order 440 of july 20, 2007. Review of detention policy options january 22, 2009 executive order 12333. Barack obama executive order 505, november 2008on 20 november 2009 democrat barack obama replaced republican george w. By the authority vested in me as president by the constitution and the laws of the united states of america, in order to develop policies for the detention, trial, transfer, release, or other disposition of individuals captured or apprehended in connection with armed conflicts and counterterrorism. Five years ago today, president obama signed executive order 491 ensuring lawful interrogations. Upholding executive order 491 ensuring lawful interrogations dear president obama. Before editing a document, you should let it sit for a day or two.
For example, immediately upon taking office in 2009, president obama issued executive order 491 on ensuring lawful interrogations. Redirected incompetent customer service leads to an order. Executive order eo 491 did not withdraw all executive directives, orders, and regulations from september 11, 2001, to january 20, 2009, concerning detention or the interrogation of. Upholding executive order 491 ensuring lawful interrogations. We thwrite to urge you to use the occasion of the 5 anniversary of your executive order 491 ensuring lawful interrogations to publicly support the release of the senate select committee on intelligences. The amendment codifies key aspects of president obamas 2009 executive order 491 ensuring lawful interrogations by placing all u.
The special interagency task force on interrogation and transfer policies, created by executive order 491, requested that the inspectors general from the departments of homeland security, state, and defense report on the transfers conducted by each agency in reliance on diplomatic assurances of humane treatment. National religious campaign against torture wikipedia. Subsection 1045a provides that any individual in the custody or under the effective control of an officer. Executive order 491, ensuring lawful interrogations, closed the cias secret torture centers the black sites and ended permission for the agency to use what had. Psychologists related to interrogation and detainee. It restricted the cia and other executive agencies to proceed with interrogations strictly in accord with the principles, processes, conditions, and limitations army field manual 2 22. Barack obama executive order 505, november 2008 the. Executive order 522 creating labormanagement forums to. Jul 10, 20 executive order 491 of january 22, 2009. Ensuring lawful interrogation january 22, 2009 executive order 493. Executive order 491, ensuring lawful interrogations, closed the cias secret torture centers. Executive order 491, ensuring lawful interrogations, closed the cias secret torture centers the black sites and ended permission for the agency to use what had euphemistically become known as enhanced interrogation techniques.
Proper use of this tool can help an investigator determine a suspects guilt or innocence. Executive order 491 is an executive order issued on january 22, 2009, by united states president barack obama ordering compliance with us domestic law, and its international agreements, in its treatment of captives. His purpose was to promote the humane treatment of both detainees in u. The order calls for effectiveness of human intelligence gathering, to promote the safe, lawful, and humane treatment of. 74 fr 4673, january 26, 2009 executive order 491 ensuring lawful interrogation. The fact that the data is ordered by customerid only helps in seeking the index to find that range of values. But despite daily mentions of the practice in the media, there is a lack of informed commentary on its moral implications.
United states, treatment and interrogation in detention. Executive order 493 federation of american scientists. Yet critics of realism and the legalistic approach to the practice of intelligence maintain that this approach contributes to an ends justify the means mentality that. Enhancing vetting capabilities and processes for detecting attempted entry into the united states by terrorists or other publicsafety threats by the president of the united states of america a proclamation in executive order 780 of march 6, 2017 protecting the nation from foreign terrorist entry into the united. The order refers to the legal disposition of detainees at the guantanamo bay naval base and the termination of the detention center. About that presidential executive order on interrogations. The act of interrogation, and the debate over its use, pervades our culture, whether through fictionalized depictions in movies and television or discussions of reallife interrogations on the news. Upon taking office in january 2009, president obama issued executive order 491 ensuring lawful interrogations. Marc thiessens column on obama courting disaster by. And given candidate trumps repeated endorsements of waterboarding or worse, it seems very likely that sometime next january well see action repealing president obamas executive order 491 ensuring lawful interrogation, accompanied by renewed talk of taking the gloves off when it comes to interrogation.
Executive order 491 2009, ensuring lawful interrogations as examples of policy that has come to define improved standards for the ethical treatment of detainees. Welfare act of 2005 or presidential executive order e. I will introduce the first four recommendations as legislation in the beginning of the 114th congress. It established common article 3 of the geneva conventions as the baseline legal standard for detainee treatment. By the authority vested in me as president by the constitution and the laws of the united states of america, in order to develop policies for the detention, trial, transfer, release, or other disposition of individuals captured or apprehended in connection with armed conflicts and counterterrorism operations that. Moving beyond the narrow focus on torture that has characterized most work. The interrogation techniques used by military standards. Feinstein proposes reforms to prevent future use of. Executive order,491, ensuring lawful interrogations, revoked all executive directives, orders, and regulations issued between september 11, 2001 and january 20, 2009 that contravene u.
The treasury departments office of foreign assets control ofac is publishing the names of one hundred thirtythree persons whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to one or more of the following authorities. Eo 233, november 1, 2001 executive order 490 ethics commitments by executive branch personnel signed. Chapter 5 chapter 5 using the law true\false the process. Looking over the new executive order ensuring lawful interrogations, which revokes president bushs executive order 440, cj comes to the conclusion that president obamas executive order says much the same thing as the one it revokes. Yet, despite welldocumented violations of international and domestic laws no clear standards have emerged and there has been no accountability except for a handful of lower level military personnel.
The purpose of this article is to require the creation of an electronic record of an entire custodial interrogation in order to eliminate disputes about interrogations, thereby. Intelligence community legal reference book, summer 2016. Mar 28, 2010 executive order 493 of january 22, 2009. Executive order 567 federation of american scientists. Cje2600criminal investigation techniques ch 6 quiz. President obama issued executive order 491, closing the cia program and directing that, henceforth, all interrogations by u. I went through 10 people whos english is hardly fluent. The most recent piece of legislation that directly influences the usage of coercive interrogation techniques is executive order 491 ensuring lawful interrogations, which was issued in january of 2009 by the current president of the united states. Coercive interrogation techniques 662 words 3 pages. The intelligence community draws much of its authority and guidance from the body of law contained in this collection. All executive directives, orders, and regulations inconsistent with this order, including but not limited to those issued to or by the central intelligence agency cia from september 11, 2001, to january 20, 2009, concerning detention or the interrogation of detained individuals, are revoked. Yesterday was the fiveyear anniversary of president obamas executive order 491 on ensuring lawful interrogations.
Executive order eo 423, instructs federal agencies to conduct their environmental, transportation, and energyrelated activities under the law in support of their respective missions in an environmentally, economically and fiscally sound, integrated, continuously improving, efficient, and sustainable manner. S personnel must follow the techniques contained in the army field manual. Joint letter to president obama to support release of. Ensuring lawful interrogations this executive order issued by president barack obama calls for reform in the interrogation techniques used by the united states against those in custody. Obama soon initiated changes to bushs 2001 executive order concerning scientific research involving human. On january 22, 2009 president obama issued executive order 491 titled ensuring lawful interrogations, which halted u. Executive order 491 wikisource, the free online library. By the authority vested in me by the constitution and the laws of the united states of america, in order to improve the effectiveness of human intelligence gathering, to promote the safe, lawful, and humane treatment of individuals in united states custody and of united states personnel who are detained in armed. Executive order 493 is an executive order issued by united states president barack obama ordering the identification of lawful alternatives to the detention of captives in the guantanamo bay detention camps, in cuba. This new doctrine is an overcorrection that obstructs units at the tactical level from.
Dec 23, 2016 i placed an order but got an email stating that there was a problem with payment and to call a specific number. A cooperative and productive form of labormanagement relations. Federal register volume 74, number 16 tuesday, january 27, 2009 presidential documents pages 48934896 from the federal register online via the government printing office. By the authority vested in me by the constitution and the laws of the united states of america, in order to improve the effectiveness of human intelligencegathering, to promote the safe, lawful, and humane treatment of individuals in united states custody and of united states personnel who are detained in armed. Download free printonly pdf or purchase interactive pdf version of this form. All executive directives, orders, and regulations inconsistent with this order, including but not limited to those issued to or by the central intelligence agency cia from september 11, 2001, to january 20, 2009, concerning. Executive order 491ensuring lawful interrogations the. This exemption is consistent with and reinforces the relevant requirements of executive order 491 on ensuring lawful interrogations, which allows law enforcement agents to use only authorized, noncoercive techniques of interrogation that are designed to elicit voluntary statements and do not involve the use of force, threats, or.
By the authority vested in me by the constitution and the laws of the united states of america, in order to improve the effectiveness of human intelligence gathering, to promote the safe, lawful, and humane treatment of individuals in united states custody and of united states personnel who are detained in. It became the law of the land through the signing of executive order 491 ensuring lawful interrogations which highlighted the new field manual as the single point of reference for any u. Federal register sanctions actions pursuant to executive. Agency lm forums to identify problems and propose solutions to better serve the public, improve employee work life and labormanagement relations. Executive order 491 of january 22, 2009 ensuring lawful interrogations. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Torture, rendition, and indefinite detention under trump. Executive order 440 wikisource, the free online library.
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