![]() ![]() ![]() Starting in late 2002 a detainee bearing the number 063 was tortured over a period of more than seven weeks. Its military beginnings, however, lie not in Abu Ghraib, as is commonly thought, or in the “rendition” of prisoners to other countries for questioning, but in the treatment of the very first prisoners at Guantánamo. The abuse, rising to the level of torture, of those captured and detained in the war on terror is a defining feature of the presidency of George W. Philippe Sands follows the torture trail, and holds out the possibility of war crimes charges. The attorneys would even fly to Guantánamo to ratchet up the pressure-then blame abuses on the military. The White House The Green Light by Phillippe Sands May 2008 - ¤tPage=all As the first anniversary of 9/11 approached, and a prized Guantánamo detainee wouldn’t talk, the Bush administration’s highest-ranking lawyers argued for extreme interrogation techniques, circumventing international law, the Geneva Conventions, and the army’s own Field Manual. The Post also sheds light on Yoo's earlier Octolegal memo, the one that declared that the Fourth Amendment had "no application to domestic military operations.". The Washington Post reports this morning that when Yoo issued his now-infamous Mamemo to the Pentagon, neither Attorney General John Ashcroft, nor his deputy Larry Thompson "were aware." As Marty Lederman has pointed out, the fact that the memo was issued under Yoo's own name is further indication that this was a back door authorization of interrogation practices. ![]() Post: Ashcroft Didn't Sign Off on Yoo Pentagon Torture Memo Paul Kiel - Ap More evidence that John Yoo was the most powerful deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's history. Torture memoranda free#In other words, Mukasey is saying that the OLC can legitimately be used as a printing press to issue get-out-of-jail free cards to be distributed at will.ġ. Post: Ashcroft Didn't Sign Off on Yoo Pentagon Torture Memo Attorney General Mukasey insists that those who received these memoranda were entitled to rely on them, and they cannot be prosecuted. But for analytical purposes it is important to group them together and to view the undisclosed subsequent memoranda as the progeny of Yoo Prime and Yoo Two. The Torture Memo Family We now know that there are at least six memoranda crafted by OLC that discuss the torture issue we do not know the details on the more recent of them. In most respects, it follows the previously published Augmemorandum (though it does have some bombshells. On March 14, 2003, John Yoo issued an 81-page memorandum of law to Haynes (I’ll call it “Yoo Two”). (“Jim”) Haynes II–now the general counsel of Chevron–was prodding OLC for a memorandum to help him in a battle with lawyers at the Pentagon. In early 2003, beginning after the Ashcroft Justice Department dispensed advice to the Central Intelligence Agency authorizing the introduction of torture techniques, Rumsfeld’s lawyer, William J. ![]() Yoo Two April 3 - Yesterday another of the long-withheld torture memoranda was released. ![]()
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