The staff members involved have been placed on administrative leave, which is routine policy, Ms. Barber said.
Yet they remain worried that their routine policy campaigning could be caught up by the provisions of this bill.
Canberra is trying to turn its controversial scheme to prevent the Tampa's migrants claiming asylum on its shores into routine policy.
This decision was apparently made as a consequence of a recently instituted policy about where to file cases; Garcetti simply failed to perceive that this very unusual case might not be best handled by routine policy directives.
Senator Hutchinson said an increased reliance on the Guard and Reserves should not become a routine policy because of the impact deployments are having on reservists and their families.
He said that it was now the C.D.C.'s routine policy not to rule out terrorism but that no reason had yet been presented to suggest that Mr. Stevens's case had an other-than-natural cause.
If he plotted to do that from the get-go, if it is his routine policy in such cases, he should have said so and perhaps offered to split the proceeds.
"This was not a routine policy," Mr. Friedrich said in his opening statement.
"Torture is a widespread, systematic, routine policy in Egypt through the last 30 years.
