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WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. President Bush wasn't involved in the decision to seek the death penalty for six suspects in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the White House said.
The decision to charge six detainees at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was made solely by military authorities, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said at a media briefing Monday.
Perino said she wasn't "able to comment about the trial from this podium" when asked whether some of the confessions may not be admissible because they were obtained by waterboarding, an interrogation technique simulating drowning. The CIA has admitted waterboarding was used against some suspects when in the agency's custody.
Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, Defense Department legal adviser, said Monday charges against the six detainees include conspiracy, murder in violation of the law of war, terrorism and material support of terrorists. He said the military commissioner would be asked to consider the offenses capital ones and impose the death penalty.
"Obviously, (Sept. 11, 2001,) was a defining moment in our history and a defining moment in the global war on terror," Perino said, "and this judicial process is the next step in that story, of the history of this issue."
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