I 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7056 
To improve United States capabilities for gathering human intelligence 
through the effective interrogation and detention of terrorist suspects 
and for bringing terrorists to justice through effective prosecution in 
accordance with the principles and values set forth in the Constitution 
and other laws. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 24, 2008 
Mr. PRICE of North Carolina (for himself, Mr. HOLT, Mr. LARSON of Con-
necticut, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. OLVER, Mr. WATT, Mr. MILLER of North 
Carolina, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Ms. DELAURO, and Mr. HINCHEY) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed 
Services, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Foreign Af-
fairs, and Select Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be sub-
sequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of 
such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To improve United States capabilities for gathering human 
intelligence through the effective interrogation and deten-
tion of terrorist suspects and for bringing terrorists to 
justice through effective prosecution in accordance with 
the principles and values set forth in the Constitution 
and other laws. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Interrogation and De-
tention Reform Act of 2008’’. 
TITLE I—INTERROGATION 
POLICY 
SEC. 101. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
It shall be the policy of the United States to— 
(1) vigorously implement a sustained national 
strategy to combat the short- and long-term threat 
to national security posed by global terrorism and 
global terrorist organizations using all appropriate 
instruments of United States national power; 
(2) arrest, detain, and prosecute to the full ex-
tent of the law individuals who are involved in or are 
providing material support for terrorist activities, 
and use all appropriate means to obtain from indi-
viduals lawfully in United States custody timely, ac-
curate, and actionable intelligence to protect the na-
tional security interests of the United States; 
(3) provide extensive specialized training to per-
sonnel working in support of the Federal Govern-
ment who are involved in the arrest, detention, inter-
rogation, and prosecution of terrorist suspects; 
(4) enforce, in the arrest, detention, interroga-
tion, and prosecution of terrorist suspects, standards 
of conduct that uphold the principles of human 
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rights that are set forth in the Constitution and 
have been held sacred by generations of Americans; 
(5) prohibit the application of all forms of tor-
ture and cruel and inhuman or degrading treatment 
or punishment during the arrest, detention, interro-
gation, and prosecution of terrorist suspects and ag-
gressively work to prevent such behaviors by per-
sonnel that come into contact with terrorist suspects 
while such suspects are in the custody or under the 
effective control of the Federal Government; 
(6) actively seek to research and develop the 
most effective practices for arrest, detention, interro-
gation, and prosecution of terrorist suspects in co-
operation with nations allied with the United States, 
incorporating insights from past international expe-
riences in combating global terrorism and global ter-
rorist organizations; 
(7) develop and regularly monitor policies re-
lated to the arrest, detention, interrogation, and 
prosecution of terrorist suspects to ensure that their 
effective exercise is consistent with the United 
States’ strategic goals of weakening global terrorist 
organizations and their recruitment capabilities over 
the long term and strengthening the international 
leadership of the United States; and 
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