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2007 PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLARS AND PRESIDENT BUSH ON DETAINEE ABUSE JUNE AND JULY 2007 CHRONOLOGY

2007 PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLARS AND PRESIDENT BUSH ON DETAINEE ABUSE JUNE AND JULY 2007 CHRONOLOGY June 25 Students present letter on detainee abuse signed by 50 Presidential Scholars to President Bush during White House photo shoot. Dana Perino confirms event. NBC – News with Brian Williams

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2007 PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLARS AND PRESIDENT BUSH ON DETAINEE ABUSE JUNE AND JULY 2007 CHRONOLOGY

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  1. 2007 PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLARS AND PRESIDENT BUSH ON DETAINEE ABUSE JUNE AND JULY 2007 CHRONOLOGY June 25 Students present letter on detainee abuse signed by 50 Presidential Scholars to President Bush during White House photo shoot. Dana Perino confirms event. NBC – News with Brian Williams MSNBC Countdown with Keith Olbermann CNN – Ed Henry presents story in context of VP Cheney series in Washington Post AP – “Scholars Urge Bush to Ban Torture” June 26 CNN – John Roberts with Leah Anthony Libresco, Colin McSwiggen and Mari Oye June 27 Maureen Dowd “W. Learns from Students” New York Times Marty Kaplan “Bong Hits 4 Bush” on Huffington Post Daniel Schorr – All Things Considered June 29 WBZ TV with Mari Oye and Willa Michener Nebraska TV with Two Scholars Los Angeles Radio July 4 Democracy Now – Amy Goodman interview with Leah Anthony Libresco and Mari Oye July 10 Amy Goodman column Leah Libresco, Colin McSwiggen and Mari Oye blog on Huffington Post Tokyo Shimbun with Mari Oye, Willa Michener and Kenneth Oye Asian American Radio interview with Mari Oye July 20 President Bush announces ban on detainee torture , accepts Geneva Conventions. But no definition of torture, no rescinding signing statement, no definition of Article 3 July 28 Torsten Wiesel, Nobel Laureate and human rights advocate, hands letter to President Bush on detainee abuse on award of Presidential Medal of Science and Technology.

  2. President George W. Bush and 2007 Presidential Scholars June 25, 2007

  3. Some of Scholars Who Drafted and Circulated the Statement “We do not want America to represent torture. We urge you to do all in your power to stop violations of the human rights of detainees, to cease illegal renditions, and to apply the Geneva Convention to all detainees, including those designated enemy combatants.”

  4. NBC News June 25, 2007

  5. SCHOLARS URGE BUSH TO BAN USE OF TORTURE Associated Press June 25, 2007; 7:33 PMWASHINGTON -- President Bush was presented with a letter Monday signed by 50 high school seniors in the Presidential Scholars program urging a halt to "violations of the human rights" of terror suspects held by the United States. The White House said Bush had not expected the letter but took a moment to read it and talk with a young woman who handed it to him. "The president enjoyed a visit with the students, accepted the letter and upon reading it let the student know that the United States does not torture and that we value human rights," deputy press secretary Dana Perino said. The students had been invited to the East Room to hear the president speak about his effort to win congressional reauthorization of his education law known as No Child Left Behind. The handwritten letter said the students "believe we have a responsibility to voice our convictions.“ "We do not want America to represent torture. We urge you to do all in your power to stop violations of the human rights of detainees, to cease illegal renditions, and to apply the Geneva Convention to all detainees, including those designated enemy combatants," the letter said. The designation as a Presidential Scholar is one of the nation's highest honors for graduating high school students. Each year the program selects one male and one female student from each state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Americans living abroad, 15 at-large students, and up to 20 students in the arts on the basis of outstanding scholarship, service, leadership and creativity. "I know all of you worked hard to reach this day," Bush told the students in his education speech. "Your families are proud of your effort, and we welcome your family members here. Your teachers are proud of your effort, and we welcome your teachers. And our entire nation is proud to call you Presidential Scholar." The scholars travel to Washington each June for seminars, lectures and workshops with government officials, elected representatives and others.

  6. W. LEARNS FROM STUDENTS Maureen Dowd, New York Times, June 27, 2007WASHINGTON - A group of high school Presidential Scholars visiting the White House on Monday surprised President Bush by slipping him a handwritten letter pleading with him not to let America become known for torture and urging him to stick to the Geneva Conventions with terror detainees. The president reassured the teenagers that the United States does not torture. Then the vice president unleashed a pack of large dogs on the kids, running them off the White House lawn, before he shut down the Presidential Scholars program and abolished high schools. Since its rare that Mr. Bush ever sees groups that have not been prescreened to be nice to him, he made the mistake of opening the letter in front of the students and was surprised to learn that he has made many Americans ashamed by subverting values that the country has always held dear, like abiding by the Constitution and respecting human dignity. Mari Oye from Wellesley, Mass., who is headed to Yale in the fall, handed W. the letter signed by 50 students as they posed for a group picture. She told John Roberts on CNN that her mother had been a Presidential Scholar back in 1968 and always regretted not saying something to Lyndon Johnson about the Vietnam War. She also said her grandparents were Japanese-Americans who were interned during World War II, so she has compassion for those in a similar situation. We asked him to remove the signing statement attached to the anti-torture bill, which would have allowed presidential power to make exemptions to the ban on torture, she said. I really feel strongly about this issue and also about the treatment of some Arab- and Muslim-Americans after Sept. 11th. The president was trying to talk to the students about No Child Left Behind. Maybe that programs working better than we thought, if these kids are able to pull off such a knowing note left behind. The White House got another unpleasant surprise Monday night when the ordinarily compliant Dick Lugar, the ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee who has gone along with the Bush administration on every Iraq vote, came to the floor of the Senate to sharply upbraid the president on his Iraq policy in a 50-minute speech.Those who offer constructive criticism of the surge strategy are not defeatists, any more than those who warn against a precipitous withdrawal are militarists, the 75-year-old senator told the deserted chamber.

  7. 【国際】 日系４世女子高生が手紙渡す　大統領閣下へ　米国は虐待をやめて 2007年7月11日 朝刊 ブッシュ大統領に手紙を手渡したマリ・オオエさん（右から２人目）と家族。左から父ケネスさん、母ウィラさん、祖母カズエさん＝ペンシルベニア州フィラデルフィアで 全米の優秀学生として「大統領奨学生」に選ばれた米マサチューセッツ州の女子高生マリ・オオエさん（１８）が、ブッシュ大統領に米国が関与する虐 待行為をやめるよう求めた手紙を渡し、話題になっている。マリさんは日系四世。父からは第二次世界大戦中、日系人として強制収容された祖父母の思いを、同 じように大統領奨学生に選ばれた母からは、その経験を聞いて育った。手紙には家族の歴史と思いが託されていた。　（フィラデルフィアで、久留信一、写真 も） TOKYO SHIMBUN, JULY 11

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