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Wednesday, September 6, 2006; 4:58 PM       WHITMAN: Good
afternoon, and thank you for joining us. Our briefers today, I
think you're familiar with, but it's Deputy Assistant Secretary
of Defense for Detainee Affairs Cully Stimson and Army Deputy
Chief of Staff for Intelligence Lieutenant General John Kimmons.
They're here today to brief you on two documents that the
department is releasing today. The first is the Defense
Department directive for detainee programs, and the second is
the Army field manual for human intelligence collector
operations.  We have a limited amount of time, so I'd like to
keep it to those two topics. They have brief introductions to
introduce the manuals to you, and then we'll take some
questions. But they do have another engagement. I know we
started a little late. So I'll get out of here and turn it over
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