[Peace-discuss] Bradbury Torture Memos to Be Released

[LAURIE SOLOMON]

Some on this list might find this interesting if they have not already seen
or heard of it.

 

Jason Leopold | Bradbury Torture Memos to Be Released
http://www.truthout.org/032509J Jason Leopold, Truthout: "The Obama
administration intends to declassify and publicly release three Justice
Department memorandums drafted in May 2005 that gave CIA interrogators the
legal authorization to torture 'high-value' detainees as well as a list of
techniques to use against the prisoners, according to a report in Newsweek.
According to a list of still-secret documents related to the Bush
administration's 'enhanced interrogation techniques' obtained from the ACLU,
the May 2005 memos were signed by Steven Bradbury, former head of the
Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC). However, one of the
memos Bradbury signed, dated May 10, 2005, was largely one in which he
reinstated elements of an August 2002 torture memo drafted by Jay Bybee and
John Yoo, former deputy assistant attorney generals at OLC, which spelled
out exactly what techniques interrogators could use against prisoners and
was written for the CIA."

 

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