Prof. Philippe Sands

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  Philippe Sands QC is professor of law at University College London and a barrister at Matrix Chambers.His new book is Torture Team: the Rumsfeld Memo and the Betrayal of American Values.

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  Philippe Sands, Professor of International Law at University College, London, says he is not aware of any Western democracy having taken so broad a definition (of terrorism). The Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem and Human Rights Watch have also drawn attention to this. The EU cut off financial support to the Hamas government on the grounds of links with terrorism and rejection of the proposed twin state peace agreement.

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  Indeed, according to international human rights attorney Philippe Sands,
  
  "There were backchannels, unconnected communications," involving a military intelligence person and a non-military intelligence person, who was passing information outside. [Former Guantánamo commander Maj.Gen.Mike] Dunlavey couldn't remember his name.He told me that the most senior Washington lawyers visited Guantánamo, including David Addington, the Vice President's lawyer, with Gonzales and Haynes, at the end of September before he signed off on his memo. (Torture Team, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, p. 47)
  
  As Sands and other investigators, such as psychoanalyst Stephen Soldz have reported, moves to reverse-engineer SERE tactics by Behavioral Science Consultation Teams (BSCT) tasked to the Guantánamo Bay detention facility, following explicit demands by Bush's team of torture attorneys, led to systematic and widespread detainee abuse.

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  The Green Light: Attorney Philippe Sands Follows the Bush Administration Torture TrailDemocracy Now! | The Green Light: Attorney Philippe Sands Follows the Bush Administration Torture Trail
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  The Green Light: Attorney Philippe Sands Follows the Bush Administration Torture Trail
  
  A new exposé in Vanity Fair by British attorney Philippe Sands reveals new details about how attorney John Yoo and other high-ranking administration lawyers helped design and implement the interrogation policies seen at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and secret CIA prisons.
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  Sands joins us in our firehouse studio. [includes rush transcript]
  
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  Philippe Sands, international lawyer at the firm Matrix Chambers and a professor at University College London.His article "The Green Light" appears in the new issue of Vanity Fair.He is the author of the forthcoming book The Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values.His last book was titled Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules.
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  "The Green Light" by Philippe Sands
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  Meanwhile, the British attorney Philippe Sands has just published an article in Vanity Fair exposing new details about how Yoo and other high-ranking administration attorneys helped design and implement the interrogation policies seen at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and secret CIA prisons.
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  Sands argues the actions of these lawyers might have amounted to war crimes and could result in their prosecution overseas.
  
  Philippe Sands joins us in the firehouse studio, international lawyer at the firm Matrix Chambers and a professor at University College London.He is the author of the forthcoming book The Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and The Betrayal of American Values.His last book was called Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules.
  
  Welcome to Democracy Now!
  
  PHILIPPE SANDS: Very nice to be with you, Amy.
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  PHILIPPE SANDS: Well, I adopted a different approach from the last book: I didn't deal with documents; I dealt with people.
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  PHILIPPE SANDS: Well, I think that the administration's narrative has always been they really didn't authorize these things; what happened was it started on the ground at Guantanamo, they faced a situation with individuals who they thought presented a threat to US security, and from the ground, from the people at Guantanamo, new security, new interrogation measures were requested.
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  PHILIPPE SANDS: Well, he was basically their gopher.I don't think he was the driving force.I don't think he was the intellectual brains pushing pressure on people down at Guantanamo.That came from the more senior lawyers.But he was the convenient ideologue, if you like, who was there able to sign on the dotted line and authorize things that others certainly would not have authorized.
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  PHILIPPE SANDS: Well, I think the starting memo-there are two memos on the 1st of August, 2002.
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  PHILIPPE SANDS: Yeah.It's become a very famous, or infamous, memo.It's the one where he writes at the bottom, "Why is standing limited to four hours?I stand for eight to ten hours a day."And he approves fifteen techniques of interrogation and then leaves open three other techniques, including waterboarding.
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  PHILIPPE SANDS: Well, I've spoken for the first time, or at least people I've spoken with have for the first time now become publicly identified as closely involved.
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  AMY GOODMAN: We're talking to Philippe Sands.
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  PHILIPPE SANDS: I can.
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  PHILIPPE SANDS: Diane Beaver no longer feels able to watch 24.
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  PHILIPPE SANDS: Well, I had a rather curious day.
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  PHILIPPE SANDS: It's a really important point.I mean, I'm a lawyer.
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  PHILIPPE SANDS: I can talk to him.
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  PHILIPPE SANDS: Well, he was Under Secretary of Defense in charge of policy.So here I am talking to the guy who's responsible for US policy on treatment of detainees.And I put it to him, "Did it never occur to you that by opening the door to this type of interrogation, you would expose American soldiers or Americans to the same sort of treatment?"And he really just didn't-he basically said, "We never really thought through all of these issues."
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  PHILIPPE SANDS: Well, if he had a role-and it's pretty sure or clear that he did, because he's-the famous dunk in the water quotation, he's got no objection to waterboarding, it seems, if it's going to produce results under certain circumstances.
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  AMY GOODMAN: Philippe Sands, the memo that came out this week that endorsed assault, maiming, even administering mind-altering drugs, the document suggests US interrogators would be immune from prosecution for any crime because of the President's wartime authority.
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  PHILIPPE SANDS: Well, that argument is complete rubbish.
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  PHILIPPE SANDS: I think it's a real possibility.The judge and the prosecutor have asked me for all of my materials.
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  PHILIPPE SANDS: Well, this is a delicate issue.
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  AMY GOODMAN: Philippe Sands, I want to thank you very much for being with us.

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  by Philippe Sands (Allen Lane, £20)
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  Law professor Philippe Sands addresses such thinking, and its consequences for those held at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.
  
  He provides detailed evidence of who in Bush's administration knew what was happening and when, in many cases demolishing claims that those higher up the chain of command were unaware of the methods being used.
  
  In particular, this is an account of how some of the White House's top lawyers supported actions that are criminal under international law.
  
  Although Donald Rumsfeld looms predictably large, Sands has conducted numerous interviews that show the considerable number of officials involved.

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  Published on: 6/1/2008    Last Visited: 6/2/2008  

  Author Philippe Sands quotes a judge with experience in international criminal cases who says "It's a matter of time" before members of the Bush administration are arrested for war crimes while traveling abroad.

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  This article has been amended to remove the incorrect statement that Philippe Sands, professor of international law, helped George Monbiot draw up the charges against John Bolton.
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  At the end of the day, these decisions are political, said some lawyers - a charge which I have heard Philippe Sands' legal colleagues level against him.
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  23 February 2001 Texas A & M University 10th anniversary celebration of the liberation of Kuwait cited in Lawless World, Philippe Sands, Allen Lane 2005 p. 190.
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  Further to my last post correcting a misapprehension I picked up ay Hay that Philippe Sands was in some way involved in George Monbiot's attempt to effect a citizen's arrest against John Bolton.

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  Published on: 11/14/2008    Last Visited: 11/18/2008  

  Another participant in the Andover conference, Philippe Sands, director of the Centre of International Courts and Tribunals at University College, London, said that "under the Convention Against Torture, any person who has tortured anywhere in the world can be arrested in the United Kingdom" if they enter that country.

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  Author Philippe Sands quotes a judge with experience in international criminal cases who says "It's a matter of time" before members of the Bush administration are arrested for war crimes while traveling abroad.

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  Published on: 9/23/2008    Last Visited: 9/24/2008  

  Philippe Sands
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  "Lawyers as the ultimate guardians of legality have a particular responsibility," Philippe Sands, an international lawyer and author of Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values, said during a recent talk at the Watson Institute.Sands discussed the role of lawyers in drafting the torture memos that changed the way the US interrogated prisoners, their disregard for international legal norms , and their impact on the United States' reputation in the world.
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  Sands said that the scripted nature of this response did not give it "a ring of, truthfulness."After an investigation that encompassed interviews with all of the relevant actors, he concluded that all of the statements made by Haynes and Gonzalez were untrue.
  
  Sands blamed a small group of ideologically driven political appointees for "in effect, a sort of coup d'etat."
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  Sands cited Beaver as the best example of this , a lawyer with no international experience who had been told by Haynes ten days prior to her memo requesting the change in interrogation methods to "do everything that needs to be done."
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  Sands further remarked that the legal advice in all of the torture memos was "deeply flawed" and "biased," that the techniques did migrate, and that the policy change was imposed from the highest levels of government.
  
  In his speech, Sands was still optimistic that the United States can recover its reputation.Yet he warned how easily a small group of politically appointed lawyers, who he sees as primarily responsible, were able "to create a legal environment in which certain people are determined to have no rights at all."
  
  Quoting Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy from his majority opinion in Hamdan vs.Rumsfeld, which struck down the exemption of rights for detainees as guaranteed in the Geneva Conventions, Sands said that a "specter of war crimes arises."

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