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MEDIA SCOUT: The Bush Administration's memo on torture

icon By on Apr. 2nd, 2008 at 4:05pm       0 Comments

In today's New York Times: A report on the 2003 Justice Department memo that gave military interrogators "broad authority to use extreme methods in questioning detainees and argued that wartime powers largely exempted interrogators from laws banning harsh treatment." The memo was released Advertisementon Tuesday as a result of pressure by the American Civil Liberties Union. You can link to the Times' article and the full text of the memo here

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