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"Justice Advised CIA in '02 About Legal Waterboarding"

"Justice Advised CIA in '02 About Legal Waterboarding": The Washington Post on Friday will contain an article that begins, "Lawyers for the Bush administration told the CIA in 2002 that its officers could legally use waterboarding and other harsh measures while interrogating al-Qaeda suspects, as long as they acted 'in good faith' and did not deliberately seek to inflict severe pain, according to a Justice Department memo made public yesterday."

The Associated Press reports that "2002 Justice memo OKs CIA interrogation tactics."

And CNN.com reports that "Previously secret torture memo released."

CNN.com has posted the heavily redacted memo, signed by then-Assistant Attorney General Jay S. Bybee, who now serves as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, at this link.

Full post as published by How Appealing on July 25, 2008 (boomark / email).