Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Secret memo claimed interrogators were exempt from federal laws

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clipped from blogs.usatoday.com

The Justice Department has declassified an 81-page legal opinion that authorized military interrogators to use aggressive techniques to extract information from the terrorism suspects in their custody.

The memorandum was issued March 14, 2003.

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“Senior officials at the Justice Department gave the Pentagon the green light to torture prisoners,” Amrit Singh, an ACLU staff attorney, says in a statment. “It is outrageous that none of these high-level officials have been brought to task yet for their role in authorizing prisoner abuse.”

John Yoo, the lawyer who wrote the memo, defended his analysis in an e-mail to The Washington Post.

Here are some excerpts from this controversial document, which is available in its entirety via The Washington Post:


"Today’s declassification of one such memo is a small step forward, but
in no way fulfills those requests," the Judiciary Committee chairman
says in a statement.
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