A set of legal memoranda known as the "Torture Memos" (officially the Memorandum Regarding Military Interrogation of Alien Unlawful Combatants Held Outside...
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facility's location in a combat zone. Documents popularly known as the Torture Memos came to light a few years later. These documents, prepared in the months...
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Enhanced interrogation techniques (redirect from Cia torture)
contesting the Justice Department's Torture Memos, believing them wrong both legally and as a matter of policy. Zelikow's memo warned that the interrogation...
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John Yoo (category Torture in the United States)
of the Department of Justice, Yoo wrote the Torture Memos to determine the legal limits for the torture of detainees following the September 11 attacks...
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The Parkdale Revolutionary Orchestra (redirect from The Torture Memos)
Mueller-Heaslip’s "unique and uncompromised" compositions and arrangements. The Torture Memos is the second studio album by Canadian pop-alternative group The Parkdale...
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Jay Bybee (category Torture in the United States)
controversial "Torture Memos" in August 2002. These authorized "enhanced interrogation techniques" that were used in the systematic torture of detainees...
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Steven G. Bradbury (category Torture in the United States)
and that Bradbury's memos amounted to "legal rationalizations" that "were simply written with the goal of allowing the CIA torture program to continue...
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Precising definition Torture Memos (2002), drafted by John Yoo Universal jurisdiction Use of torture since 1948 Water cure (torture)#Philippine-American...
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Waterboarding (category Contemporary instruments of torture)
Bush Administration's Anti-Torture Memos". Mother Jones. Retrieved 24 May 2009. (links to copies of two of Zelikow's three memos) Grim, Ryan (15 April 2009)...
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the Torture Memos, legal opinions prepared by political appointees including John Yoo in the Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice. His memo of...
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known as the "torture memos." These memos advised the CIA and the Department of Defense that the President may lawfully authorize the torture of detainees...
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No blood, no foul (category Torture in the United States)
policy was shaped by the so-called Torture Memos (also called the Bybee-Yoo memorandum). The Torture Memos were written in the wake of the attack on 9/11...
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effectiveness.: 228, 241–42, 289, 335, 353 of 499 John Yoo, author of the Torture Memos, criticized the report as a partisan attack on American intelligence...
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Abu Zubaydah (category Saudi Arabian torture victims)
interrogation techniques covered in the OLC memos to the CIA: suffocation by water (which is described as "torture" by numerous US officials), prolonged stress...
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terrorist groups. The content of the memos are varied, covering everything from the aftermath of Watergate, to the torture and abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib...
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Jack Goldsmith (section Warrantless wiretapping memos)
documents, which became known as the Torture Memos, or the Bybee memo (referring to one in particular). The Bybee memo was directed to the Acting General...
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The Report (2019 film) (category Films about torture)
CIA "Torture Memos" drafted by Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo to use EITs on him, making Zubaydah the first detainee to be tortured. Raymond...
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resign. Following accounts of the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq, one of the torture memos was leaked to the press in June 2004. Jack...
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did not enter into force until about 10 years later. In its torture memos on the torture methods in Guantanamo, etc., the US also relied on that judgment...
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Zero Dark Thirty (category Films about torture)
commonly classified as torture. The use of these techniques was long kept secret by the Bush administration. (See Torture Memos, The Torture Report.) Glenn Greenwald...
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Mohamedou Ould Slahi (category Mauritanian torture victims)
to the Memos on Torture". The New York Times. 2005. Retrieved January 16, 2015. Champagne, Noiselle (March 10, 2008). "Mauritanian was tortured in Guantanamo...
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Extraordinary rendition (redirect from Torture flights)
for the purposes of torture, was an operational practice. In a court filing, Falkoff described a classified prisoner transfer memo from Guantanamo as noting...
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Guantanamo Bay detention camp (redirect from Torture at guantanamo bay)
signed by Jay S. Bybee, which would later become widely known as the "Torture Memo." General Counsel Mora led a faction of the Working Group in arguing...
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involved in abuse or torture,” despite evidence to the contrary, including government documents and Office of Legal Counsel memos, a report by the International...
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for its hearing on torture. The hearing followed President Barack Obama's declassification of what is known as the "torture memos". Most notably, Soufan...
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al-Zawahiri Killing of Osama bin Laden Enhanced interrogation techniques Torture Memos Extrajudicial prisoners Extraordinary rendition Guantanamo Bay detention...
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Abacination (category Physical torture techniques)
the free dictionary. Abacination is a form of corporal punishment or torture, in which the victim is blinded by infliction of intentional damage to...
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Mohammed al-Qahtani (category Saudi Arabian torture victims)
had provided legal opinions (later called the Torture Memos) to the CIA that narrowly defined torture and authorized the use of enhanced interrogation...
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utilize torture. While denied by the US, where it is a crime to transfer anyone to any location for the purpose of torture, critics claim that torture has...
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Extrajudicial prisoners of the United States (section Individuals identified as being tortured by the CIA without authorization)
intelligence led the administration to legal opinions (the Torture Memos, including the Bybee memo) by the Office of Legal Counsel, United States Department...
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