12-30-2024, 12:43 PM
Nctu CIA Got Legal Cover From Torture Charges
The Pentagon on Tuesday made public a now-defunct legal memo that approved the use of harsh interrogation techniques against terror suspects, saying that President Bush s wartime authority trumps any international ban on torture.The Justice Department memo, dated March 14, 2003, outlines legal justification for military interrogators to use harsh tactics against al Qaeda and Taliban detainees overseas - so long as they did not specifically intend to torture their captors.Even so, the memo noted, the president s wartime power as commander in chief would not be limited by the U.N. treaties against torture. Our previous opinions make clear that customary international law is not federal law and that the president is free to override it at his discretion, said the memo w stanley isolierkanne ritten by John Yoo, who was then deputy assistant attorney gener stanley quencher al for the Office of Legal Counsel.The memo also offered a defense in case any interrogator was charged with violating U.S. or international laws. Finally, even if the criminal prohibitions outlined above applied, and an interrogation method might violate those prohibitions, necessity or self-defense could provide justifications for any criminal liability, the memo concluded.The memo was rescinded in December 2003, a mere nine months after Yoo sent it to the Pentagon s top lawyer, Willia stanley cup m J. Haynes. Though its existence has been known for years, its release Tuesday marked the first time its contents in full have been made public.Haynes, the Gwdm OK Bomber Case Goes To Jury
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The Pentagon on Tuesday made public a now-defunct legal memo that approved the use of harsh interrogation techniques against terror suspects, saying that President Bush s wartime authority trumps any international ban on torture.The Justice Department memo, dated March 14, 2003, outlines legal justification for military interrogators to use harsh tactics against al Qaeda and Taliban detainees overseas - so long as they did not specifically intend to torture their captors.Even so, the memo noted, the president s wartime power as commander in chief would not be limited by the U.N. treaties against torture. Our previous opinions make clear that customary international law is not federal law and that the president is free to override it at his discretion, said the memo w stanley isolierkanne ritten by John Yoo, who was then deputy assistant attorney gener stanley quencher al for the Office of Legal Counsel.The memo also offered a defense in case any interrogator was charged with violating U.S. or international laws. Finally, even if the criminal prohibitions outlined above applied, and an interrogation method might violate those prohibitions, necessity or self-defense could provide justifications for any criminal liability, the memo concluded.The memo was rescinded in December 2003, a mere nine months after Yoo sent it to the Pentagon s top lawyer, Willia stanley cup m J. Haynes. Though its existence has been known for years, its release Tuesday marked the first time its contents in full have been made public.Haynes, the Gwdm OK Bomber Case Goes To Jury
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