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OSPC engages in the debates over the proper balance between security and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution and international law, including the debates surrounding the proper treatment of detainees, the prohibitions on torture, and Constitutional limits on surveillance. President Bush's decision to publicly acknowledge that the United States had been holding terrorism suspects in secret prisons without Red Cross access and to defend the use of abusive interrogation techniques emphasized the need to help raise public awareness and educate policymakers on US legal obligations and the damage to U.S. credibility caused by these actions
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