Human Rights First, a DC based nonprofit, has assembled a team of retired military brass to speak out against torture as a US policy. They have been meeting quietly with presidential nominees, seeking pledges to take a clear stand against the type of abuses suffered under the Bush administration. The Monday forum at USC is the first public event they have done. To check out Human Rights First, or sign a petition to the candidates against torture, or to see a video of the participants, go to : http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/us_law/etn/elect08/video/

Torture and Interrogation in U.S. Policy:
Former Military Leaders Speak Out

Panel Discussion moderated by Dean Charles Bierbauer

Monday, Jan. 14, 3:00pm, Lumpkin Auditorium (8th fl. USC Business Admin. Bldg), College St.

Participants: 

        Vice Admiral Lee Gunn, USN (Ret.)  Vice Admiral Gunn served as the Inspector General of the Department of the Navy and commanded the USS Barbey and the Destroyer Squadron "Thirty-one," a component of the Navy's Anti-Submarine Warfare Destroyer Squadrons.

  Vice Admiral Albert H. Konetzni, Jr. USN (Ret).  Vice Admiral Konetzni served as the Deputy and Chief of Staff of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet and commander of U.S. Fleet Forces Command.  He has received two Distinguished Service Medals, six awards of the Legion of Merit, and three Meritorious Service Medals.

       Major General Fred E. Haynes, USMC (Ret.).  General Haynes is a combat veteran of WWII, Korea and Vietnam.  He was a captain in the regiment that raised the American flag at Iwo Jima in 1945.  During the Kennedy and Johnson administrations he served as Pentagon Director for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs.  He commanded the Second and Third Marine Divisions, served as the Senior Member of the United National Limitary Armistice Commission in Korea, and was Deputy Chief of Staff for Marine Corps Research and Development.  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

  Brigadier General David R. Irvine, USA (Ret.)  Brigadier General Irvine was on the faculty of the Sixth U.S. army Intelligence School where he taught prisoner of war interrogation and military law for several hundred military personnel.  General Irvine is an attorney and practices law in Salt Lake City and has served 4 terms as a Republican legislator in the Utah House of Representatives.

Brigadier General Stephen N. Zenakis, USA (Ret).  Dr. Zenakis served 28 years in the United States Army as a medical corps officer with a specialization in clinical psychiatry.  He has written widely on medical ethics, military medicine and the treatment of detainees.

This event is free and open to the public and is co-sponsored by The Walker Institute of International and Area Studies and the non-partisan human rights organization, Human Rights First.

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