June 09, 2004

ABUSE OF POWER -Memo Legitimizes Torture, Puts President Above Law

June 09, 2004/ Tron Nick

According to news reports, a draft of a March 2003 memo on interrogation methods by Pentagon lawyers advised U.S. government officials to disregard the Geneva Conventions and the Army's own Field Manual for intelligence interrogation , after "commanders at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, complained in late 2002 that with conventional methods they weren't getting enough information from prisoners." [more]

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