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...Elisa Massimino, a lobbyist for Human Rights First, who worked with McCain in 2006 on the Military Commissions Act, says she remembers the Senator often discussing sleep deprivation as a form of illegal abuse. "I would be very surprised if at that point in time Senator McCain and others would not have raised objections to prolonged sleep deprivation," said Massimino. "He talked about Orson Swindle...
Some civil rights lobbyists remain optimistic that the positions Justice Department lawyers have taken are little more than courtroom maneuvers that don't necessarily reflect the policy plans of the Administration. "The lawyers tend to approach every issue in terms of preserving maximum flexibility for the President," explained Elisa Massimino, a lobbyist at Human Rights First, who has been deeply involved in detainee issues. Nonetheless, she says she remains concerned. "Every Administration believes it is immune to the phenomenon of executive power creep," she added...
...minor dispute. Every time Bush asserts that the U.S does not torture, he is not just undermining his own credibility, he's diminishing the Red Cross too. "It's a downward spiral," says Elisa Massimino, Washington director of Human Rights First. "If I'm the ICRC and I'm visiting [abused] prisoners in, say, Egypt, the Egyptians will say 'What are you going to do? The U.S. says this isn't torture...
...ever wanted to do was to be a high school teacher,” Sullivan said. “I just wanted to be a high school coach, I never wanted to be a college coach...Ironically my high school coach [Rollie Massimino] ended up becoming the Villanova coach, so that was that...
...Sullivan seemed to quickly have a change of heart, and moved on from the Wildcat program to Lehigh in 1977, after just three years with Massimino, but moved from there to Seton Hall...