CIA's Harsh Interrogation Techniques: Three Key Memos Now Online -- Christina Science MonitorThe most detailed documents describing the Central Intelligence Agency’s secret interrogation, rendition, and detention program are now online in the American Civil Liberties Union’s new Torture Database. Here are three of the most important memos (links included) of the 5,000-plus that the ACLU obtained through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and legal challenges going back to 2003, according to Alexander Abdo, staff attorney for the ACLU’s National Security Project.
“For the first eight months, the government refused to even process our requests. They argued that it was too time-consuming,” Mr. Abdo says. “The federal courts ultimately rejected this argument, ruling that we are a government of laws and FOIA is one of those laws.”
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WNU Editor: Just for everyone's info, The Torture Database website is here.
It is interesting that this report is being released on the same day that the following Human's Rights Watch report has come out on Syria's torture centers.
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