Students Protest Treatment in Terror Cases

The White House said Mr. Bush had not expected the letter but took a moment to read it. "The president enjoyed a visit with the students, accepted the letter and upon reading it let the students know that the United States does not torture and that we value human rights," Dana Perino, the deputy press secretary, said. The students had been invited to the East Room to hear the president speak about his effort to win Congressional reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind education law.

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