The Justice Department has disclosed four Bush-era Office of Legal Council opinions [2]on interrogation and torture that Steve Aftergood [3]of the Ploughshares-funded Federation of American Scientists [4]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.”
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[1] https://ploughshares.org/file/611
[2] http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/olc/index.html
[3] http://ploughshares.org/expert/109
[4] http://www.fas.org/
[5] http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2009/04/olc_torture_memos.html