ACLU Gets DOJ Legal Documents on Interrogation Policies

By Jeralyn, Section Terror Detainees
Posted on Mon Aug 24, 2009 at 10:19:23 PM EST
Tags: interrogation policies, DOJ Legal Memos (all tags)

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Today's document release on detainee interrogations continues. The ACLU has received Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel Letters and Memos to CIA Regarding Detention and Interrogation Policies - Documents Responsive to 2009 Torture FOIA. They include:

August 31, 2006 Letter to Rizzo from OLC concerning Conditions of Confinement

August 31, 2006 Memorandum to Rizzo from OLC concerning Application of Detainee Treatment Act to Conditions of Confinement

2007 OLC opinion on Interrogation Techniques

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August 23, 2007 Letter from OLC to CIA

November 6, 2007 Letter from OLC to CIA

November 7, 2007 Letter from OLC to CIA

June 11, 2009 Memorandum for the Attorney General written by David Barron

The ACLU says:

“The background paper and the rest of the Justice Department OLC documents turned over today shed further light on the origins and scope of the Bush administration’s torture program,” said Amrit Singh, a staff attorney for the ACLU. “These documents provide critical details about the CIA’s detention and interrogation program following the enactment of the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, which prohibited the cruel, inhuman or de