472 Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has written to the US administration to express concern over the nomination as Attorney General of a person who stated in a 2002 memo that in his view a new paradigm in the war on terror renders obsolete the Geneva Convention’s strict limitations and that some of its provisions are quaint, and who requested a Justice Department memo on the way in which to evade a legal ban on torture. [1548/05]

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472 Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has written to the US administration to express concern over the nomination as Attorney General of a person who stated in a 2002 memo that in his view a new paradigm in the war on terror renders obsolete the Geneva Convention’s strict limitations and that some of its provisions are quaint, and who requested a Justice Department memo on the way in which to evade a legal ban on torture. [1548/05]

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