Interrogation and Detention Reform Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-7056
Sponsor: Rep. Price, David E. [D-NC-4]
Introduced: 2008-09-24 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Afghanistan
Armed Forces and National Security
Arrest
Caribbean area
Charities
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Classified defense information
Conspiracy
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Cuba
Detention of persons
Employee training
Executive Office of the President
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Habeas corpus
Human rights
Intelligence community staff
Intelligence officers
International Affairs
International agencies
International cooperation
Iraq
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Law
Middle East and North Africa
Military bases
Military law
Military personnel
Prisoners' rights
Prisons
Prosecution
Punishment
Science, Technology, Communications
Sound recording and reproducing
South Asia
Standards
Terrorism
Treaties
Video tape recording
War crimes

Summary:
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: 
Interrogation and Detention Reform Act of 2008 - Requires a head of an element of the intelligence community who has custody or effective control of an detained individual to notify the International Committee of the Red Cross of such custody or control and allow such Committee physical and repeat access to such individual. 

Repeals: (1) the Military Commissions Act of 2006; (2) additional punitive provisions relating to conspiracy to commit crimes against the law of war and additional prohibitions against cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment; (3) prohibitions against the issuance of writs of habeas corpus for enemy combatants; and (4) the authority to conduct combatant status review tribunals.

Directs the President to: (1) close the Department of Defense detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; (2) remove from such facility each individual designated as an enemy combatant or unlawful enemy combatant; and (3) submit a plan to Congress for the prosecution, transfer, release, or other disposition of such combatants.

Expresses the sense of Congress with respect to the investigation and prosecution of international terrorism.

Directs the President to: (1) establish uniform standards for the interrogation of individuals in U.S. custody or under U.S. control; (2) establish the U.S. Center for Excellence in Human Intelligence Collection to train members of the Armed Forces and personnel of the intelligence community to conduct research and examine doctrine and policy related to human intelligence collection; and (3) submit to Congress a strategy for the detention of terrorist suspects and convicts.

Prohibits the use of private contractors for activities relating to the capture, custody, control, or other pertinent interaction with a detainee or prisoner in U.S. custody.

Establishes requirements for recording strategic intelligence interrogations of individuals held in U.S. custody or under detention in a U.S. facility.

Expresses the sense of Congress relating to international cooperation on human intelligence collection.

Directs the Secretary of Defense to develop incentives for the improvement of human intelligence collection capabilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2095-2096)
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Foreign Affairs, and Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Foreign Affairs, and Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Foreign Affairs, and Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Foreign Affairs, and Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Foreign Affairs, and Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Introduced in House