2003 Yoo military interrogation memo [US DOJ] News
2003 Yoo military interrogation memo [US DOJ]

Re; Military Interrogation of Alien Unlawful Combatants Held Outside the United States, Memorandum for William Haynes II, US Department of Justice, March 14, 2003 [memo by deputy assistant attorney general John Yoo finding that military interrogators could employ a wide range of interrogation methods when questioning foreign detainees outside the United States without fear of criminal liability or constitutional sanction; made public by the Department of Justice, April 1, 2008]. Read the full text of the memo [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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