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Terror, Torture.(Periscope)(United States policy on captured terrorists)(Brief article)
Byline: Michael Isikoff
Justice
Eager to show it was revising counterterror policies, two years ago the White House adopted 37 of the 39 reforms recommended by the 9/11 Commission. But it rejected one urging the U.S. to comply with the Geneva Conventions on the "humane treatment" of captured terrorists. That refusal would haunt the administration. "This [did] more damage to our foreign policy than any other issue," says Philip Zelikow, the executive director of the 9/11 Commission who later served as counselor to Condoleezza Rice. Key European allies, he said, balked at cooperating on terrorist apprehensions because of ...
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