Memo on Interrogation Tactics Is Disavowed
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Justice Document Had Said Torture May Be Defensible
By Mike Allen and Susan Schmidt
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, June 23, 2004; Page A01
President Bush's aides yesterday disavowed an internal Justice
Department opinion that torturing terrorism suspects might be legally
defensible, saying it had created the false impression that the
government was claiming authority to use interrogation techniques
barred by international law.
Responding to pressure from Congress and outrage around the world,
officials at the White House and the Justice Department derided the
August 2002 legal memo on aggressive interrogation tactics, calling
parts of it overbroad and irrelevant and saying it would be rewritten.
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