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Calling the abuse of Iraqi prisoners “a grave breach of responsibility,” the letter said that the executive branch’s allowance of questionable interrogation tactics in Iraq fosters “a culture facilitating disregard for the protections required to be accorded prisoners...
...Congress has an obligation to investigate and assess responsibility at all levels of the Executive Branch from the highest officers on down for the abuses in Abu Ghraib and other Iraqi prisons,” the letter stated...
...letter stated that while the executive branch should maintain its power to conduct military affairs, Congress should take charge of deciding whether to implement coercive interrogation methods...
...Congress should determine afresh its wisdom, its consistency with basic democratic principles of humane treatment, and its conformity with international and domestic law,” stated the letter...
...even if such a law were to be approved by Congress, the letter said that “the reviewability of such law through the operation of the courts in due course must be assured...