Prof. Philippe Sands

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  Bellinger's remarks came Monday during a debate held by Guardian America, the British newspaper's U.S. Web site, with Philippe Sands, a professor of international law at University College London. (Posted 12:31 p.m.)
  
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  How much did the Bush administration really know about the torture that was carried out by the US military in Guantanamo Bay and Iraq since 9/11? It's a fascinating question, brilliantly addressed by international lawyer Philippe Sands in his new book, "Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values". Here he's at the Melbourne Writers festival with "Stasiland" author Anna Funder. Philippe Sands is a professor in international law at University College London, as well as serving as a Queen's Council on the British bar.

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  Philippe Sands on the White House Role in Sanctioning Torture - 2 comments
  
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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.
  
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  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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  : In his new book, Torture Team, renowned international lawyer Philippe Sands documents the fact that , more »

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  http://www.democracynow.org/shows/2008/5/8 Headlines for May 08, 2008; 200 Arrested in Massive Show of Civil Disobedience Over Police Acquittals in Killing of Sean Bell ; As Aid Delivery Arrives in Cyclone-Ravaged Burma, Fears Death Toll Could Top 100,000 ; Former Senator George McGovern Switches Support from Clinton to Obama; "Torture Team": British Attorney Philippe Sands on the White House Role in Sanctioning Torture ; "Economic Hit Man" John Perkins Recounts US Efforts to Block Nationalization of Panama Canal Thu, 08 May 2008 08:00:00 -0400
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  "Torture Team": British Attorney Philippe Sands on the White House Role in Sanctioning Torture

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  In reality, British international lawyer Philippe Sands reported that Feith "took the steps to ensure thatnone of these detainees could rely on Geneva."
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  I've linked this Vanity Fair piece previously, but I had cause to re-read it and was again taken with how good a job Philippe Sands has done in reporting here

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  Professor Darius Rejali and Professor Philippe Sands will give a lunchtime seminar at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law on the 27th November 2008 from 1 to 2 p.m. on the theme of Torture and Democracy.

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  New Non-Fiction: "Lawless World" By Philippe Sands (English)
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  Tuesday, 15 November 2005, 3:11 pm | Opinion: Guest Opinion Lawless World | America and the making and breaking of Global Rules from FDR's Atlantic Charter to George Bush's Illegal war | A New Book By Philippe Sands | QUICKLINKS: | *************** | ...
  
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  The awfully nice guys allowing US torture at Guantanamo Bay -- Philippe Sands, a British QC, has exposed the 'decent' lawyers who made the brutal interrogation of Guantanamo detainees possible 04 May 2008 The interrogation room in Guantanamo Bay, Christmas Eve 2002.Detainee 063 - an Al-Qaeda suspect called Mohamed al-Kahtani ... is crying in his chair.It is his 33rd day of continuous interrogation - a month with almost no sleep - and the interrogators have started up with the white noise again and are pouring water over his head ... Happy Christmas, Mohamed.Good Christian men, rejoice ...The thing is - they knew.It was the US government's explicit policy to wipe away the Geneva conventions and subject the supposedly most dangerous captives to what were euphemistically called "aggressive" interrogation techniques - techniques that flouted international law.The people behind the policy are therefore, according to the British human rights lawyer Philippe Sands, criminals who may well face charges should they choose to take a holiday in, say, France or Germany.
  
  Probe of USS Cole Bombing Unravels 'In a hearing at Guantanamo last year, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri said he confessed to masterminding the Cole attack only because he had been tortured.' 04 May 2008 Almost eight years after al-Qaeda [al-CIAduh] nearly sank the USS Cole with an explosives-stuffed motorboat, killing 17 sailors, all the defendants convicted in the attack have escaped from prison or been freed by Yemeni officials.

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