Sandra Hodgkinson

Sandra Hodgkinson

Sandra Hodgkinson is an American lawyer, officer in the United States Navy Reserve, and a Bush Presidency political appointee.cite news
url=http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1280712007
title=Life of house arrest awaits Guantanamo detainees on return to UK
publisher=The Scotsman
author=James Kirkup
date=August 14 2007
accessdate=2007-10-10] cite news
url=http://fpc.state.gov/fpc/71958.htm
title=Department of Defense Directive on Detainee Operations, the Release of the Army Field Manual for Human Intelligence Collection and an Update on Military Commissions
publisher=United States Department of State
date=February 7 2006
accessdate=2007-10-10] cite news
url=http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_dade/story/197083.html
title=Captives dangerous, U.S. tells Britain
publisher=Miami Herald
author=Carol Rosenberg
date=Wednesday August 8 2007
accessdate=2007-10-10] cite news
url=http://media.miamiherald.com/smedia/2007/08/08/17/DASdHodgkinsonBio.source.prod_affiliate.56.pdf
title=Official biography
publisher=Miami Herald
accessessdate=2007-10-10] The Bush Presidency appointed her to be the State Department's Deputy Director, Office of War Crimes Issuesant the Department of Defense's Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs.

Hodgkinson is notable because she replaced Charles "Cully" Stimson following his controversial resignation.cite news
url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/trial-clock-ticks-but-painfully-slowly/2007/02/06/1170524094631.html
title=Trial clock ticks, but painfully slowly
publisher=The Age
author=Penelope Debelle
date=February 7 2007
accessdate=2007-09-29] Stimson's resignation followed the criticism he triggered when he questioned the patriotism of the lawyers who volunteered to aid the captives held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba, and suggested that American frims punsh their employers by boycotting their services.

Hodgkinson is notable for being at the center of the controversy over captives being transferred tocountries that use torture.cite news
url=http://geneva.usmission.gov/Press2006/0717PressBriefing.html
title=Media Roundtable with Senior Government Officials
publisher=United States Department of State
date=Monday, July 17, 2006
accessdate=2007-10-10] cite news
url=http://geneva.usmission.gov/Press2006/0718iccprResponse.html
title=U.S. Meeting with U.N. Human Rights Committee: U.S. Delegation Response to Oral Questions from the Members of the Committee
publisher=United States Department of State
date=Tuesday, July 18 2006
accessdate=2007-10-10] It is the position of the Bush Presidency that captives can be transferred to any country, provided it receives "diplomatic assurrances" that the captives won't be abused.Hodgkinson's responsibilities included negotiating for those diplomatic assurances.Critics assert that the assurances are widely ignored once the captives have been transferred.

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*cite news
url=http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=28820
title=Silent No Longer: Iraqi People Reveal the Past
publisher=American Forces Press Service
author=Linda D. Kozaryn
date=June 27, 2003
accessdate=2007-10-10


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