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ACLU: Memos authorized CIA torture

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posted on Jul, 24 2008 @ 01:00 PM
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ACLU: Memos authorized CIA torture


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As long as CIA agents could convince themselves they were not deliberately inflicting severe pain or suffering on detainees, they were free to do virtually anything in their questioning of suspected terrorists, including waterboarding. Furthermore, the agents' belief they weren't in fact torturing their captives didn't even need to be "reasonable."

These are the implications of a controversial August 2002 memo from the Justice Department to the CIA that was released Thursday. The American Civil Liberties Union obtained several internal Bush administration documents it says authorizes the CIA to torture detainees.

“These documents supply further evidence, if any were needed, that the Justice Department authorized the CIA to torture prisoners in its custody,” Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU National Security Project, said in a news release. “The Justice Department twisted the law, and in some cases ignored it altogether, in order to permit interrogators to use barbaric methods that the U.S. once prosecuted as war crimes.”
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posted on Jul, 24 2008 @ 01:00 PM
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This just stinks - after overthrowing a torturer and hanging him for his crimes, they do the same things themselves.

And now the ACLU obtains documents which confirm this.

It will take the image of the US abroad many, many years to recover from this.

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