Detainee Interrogation Recording Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4660
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2007-12-13 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Charities
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Defense
Detention of persons
Evidence (Law)
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Military intelligence
Military law
Nongovernmental organizations
Police questioning
Prisoners of war
Prisoners' rights
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Standards
Torture
Video tape recording

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: 
 Detainee Interrogation Recording Act of 2007 - Requires the President to take such actions as are necessary, in accordance with specified laws and treaties, to ensure the videotaping of each strategic interrogation and other pertinent interaction between detainees or prisoners under the effective control of the U.S. and members of the Armed Forces, U.S. intelligence operatives, or U.S. contractors. Directs the President to provide for the appropriate classification of videotapes or recordings made under that requirement. Requires such videotapes to be made available, under seal if appropriate, to both prosecution and defense attorneys to the extent that they are material to any military or civilian criminal proceeding. 
 
Defines strategic interrogation as an interrogation at: (1) a corps or theater-level detention facility; or (2) a detention facility outside of the area where the detainee or prisoner was initially captured, including one owned, operated, borrowed, or leased by the U.S. government and a detention facility of a foreign government.
 
Prohibits construing this Act to require videotaping during direct tactical combat operations.
 
Requires the President to ensure that representatives of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent are granted access to detainees or prisoners in the custody or effective control of the Armed Forces.
 
Directs the Judge Advocates General to jointly develop guidelines to ensure that the videotaping required by this Act is sufficiently expansive to prevent any abuse of detainees and prisoners and violations of specified laws and treaties.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2007-12-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2007-12-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on 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: 2007-12-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: Introduced in House