Word: padilla
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...reality, after the signing of the Philippines' own National Milk Code, "the implementation was spotty, irregular, not done consistently," says Health Undersecretary Alexander Padilla. Held up by legal complaints from milk companies who saw the code as an unlawful affront to their industry, the domestic law went through 12 drafts over 19 years. "We went through public hearings, consultations; we even tried to process the complaints of the milk companies - until when we couldn't agree on anything anymore, they brought the case to the Supreme Court," says Padilla. The milk companies' efforts finally lost the case when the Supreme...
...White refused to dismiss Jose Padilla's lawsuit against former Justice Department attorney John Yoo on Friday. Yoo wrote memos on interrogation, detention and presidential powers for the department's Office of Legal Counsel from...
...year-old Padilla is serving a 17-year sentence on terror charges. He claims he was tortured while being held nearly four years as a suspected terrorist...
...stubborn subjects. He told a recent hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee that it was these methods, not the harsh techniques, that prompted al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah to give up the identities of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, and "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla. Bush Administration officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, had previously claimed that Abu Zubaydah supplied that information only after he was waterboarded. But Soufan says once the rough treatment began - administered by CIA-hired private contractors with no interrogation experience - Abu Zubaydah actually stopped cooperating. (Read "Dick Cheney...
Whitehouse seemed more inclined to use Soufan as a stick to beat President Bush. Reminding Soufan of Bush's claim that Abu Zubaydah had given up the names of Mohammed and Padilla under "enhanced interrogation," the Senator asked if the claim were accurate. Soufan, ducking the unsubtle invitation to call Bush a liar, suggested that the former President was misinformed. "I think the President - my own personal opinion here, based on my recollection - he was told probably half-truth," Soufan said...