Torture memos declassified

The Justice Department has disclosed four Bush-era Office of Legal Council opinions on interrogation and torture that Steve Aftergood of the Ploughshares-funded Federation of American Scientists says “is likely to have significant political and perhaps legal consequences.”  President Obama announced that withholding the documents, which describe techniques that were already publically-known, would only deny facts.  Aftergood discusses the release of the memos, describing it as “a landmark in national security classification policy.”