Posted by Jonathan Adler:
More Torture Memos on the Way:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_03_22-2009_03_28.shtml#1237778504
Newsweek [1]reports that the Justice Department is preparing to
declassify and release more internal memoranda on "enhanced
interrogation" techniques.
Over objections from the U.S. intelligence community, the White
House is moving to declassify�and publicly release�three internal
memos that will lay out, for the first time, details of the
"enhanced" interrogation techniques approved by the Bush
administration for use against "high value" Qaeda detainees. The
memos, written by Justice Department lawyers in May 2005, provide
the legal rationale for waterboarding, head slapping and other
rough tactics used by the CIA. One senior Obama official, who like
others interviewed for this story requested anonymity because of
the issue's sensitivity, said the memos were "ugly" and could
embarrass the CIA. Other officials predicted they would fuel
demands for a "truth commission" on torture.
References
1. http://www.newsweek.com/id/190362
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