Executive summary of Church report on detainee interrogations [US DOD]

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Executive summary of Church report on detainee interrogations [US DOD]

March 10, 2005 08:27:00 pm

Executive summary of a report by Vice Admiral Albert T. Church on DOD interrogation operations, March 10, 2005 [indicating that he had no evidence to suggest that senior Pentagon civilian or military officials encouraged or pressured lower-level officers to do anything that would have resulted in the abuses which occured], US Department of Defense, March 10, 2005. Read the executive summary [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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