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Justice Department Releases Bush Administration Torture Memos

By ACLU

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NEW YORK ? In response to litigation filed by the American Civil Liberties Union under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the Justice Department today released four secret memos used by the Bush administration to justify torture. The memos, produced by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), provided the legal framework for the CIA's use of waterboarding and other illegal interrogation methods that violate domestic and international law.

Full post as published by ACLU Newsroom on April 16, 2009 (boomark / email).

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