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2003 Justice Department memo authorized military torture.(Inside Track)
A March 14, 2003, memorandum written by Deputy Assistant Attorney General John C. Yoo of the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel granted military interrogators broad authority to use harsh methods in questioning suspects deemed "unlawful combatants." Yoo's memo, the subject of which was "Military Interrogation of Alien Unlawful Combatants Held Outside the United States," was addressed to William J. Haynes II, general counsel of the Department of Defense. Haynes had requested that the Justice Department examine the legal standards governing military interrogations of such unlawful combatants.
The memo, made public on April 1 following declassification in response to a request by the American Civil Liberties Union under the Freedom of Information Act, rambles on in often detached, clinical language for 81 pages. For example, a section sub-headed "Severe Pain or Suffering" states: "The key statutory phrase in the definition of torture is the statement that acts amount to torture if they cause 'severe physical or mental pain or suffering.' [Legal case citation] makes plain that the infliction of ...
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