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星期六， 2008年7月26日
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备忘录提供酷刑技术和代理的被指示的CIA参加审讯

纽约-美国公民自由联合今天得到了三个被编辑的文件与布什政府的残酷审讯政策有关，包括批准对酷刑的CIA的用途的一个早先被扣压的司法部备忘录。 政府在囚犯的治疗的在美国被定购移交本文以回应信息行动(FOIA)诉讼2004年进行的由ACLU和其他组织持续的自由寻找纪录。 国外监管。

“这些文件供应进一步证据，如果其中任一是需要的，司法部在它的监管批准CIA拷打囚犯”，说Jameel Jaffer， ACLU国家安全项目的主任。 “司法部扭转了法律和一共在某些情况下忽略它，为了允许审问者使用美国的野蛮方法。 一次检控当战争犯罪”。

ACLU得到的其中一本文今天是法律顾问(OLC)观点一个早先未公开的司法部办公室的一个被编辑的版本从批准CIA使用具体审讯方法2002年的8月，包括waterboarding。 备忘录阐明，导致严厉精神痛苦的审讯方法不共计酷刑在美国之下。 法律，除非他们导致“害处持久的月甚至岁月，在行动被给予在囚犯之后”。 最初， CIA接受了它不可能证实的职位或否认这个备忘录的存在; 它滴下位置在布什总统以后在2006年9月透露了CIA操作拘留中心国外。

其他二个文件，从2003年和2004年，是备忘录从CIA与要求有关法律建议从司法部。 2003年备忘录表示， CIA审问者由OLC批准使用酷刑实践以“改进的审讯技术著名”。 备忘录也表明，为这些技术使用的每个会议， CIA提供了，尤其， “被使用的每个这样技术的本质和期间”和“出席者的身分”。 文献与CIA的酷刑会议相关，包括参与代理的名字，仍然被扣压。
 
The 2004 memo shows that CIA interrogators were told that the Justice Department had concluded that certain interrogation techniques, including “the waterboard,” did not constitute torture. The document also indicates that, after the Supreme Court ruled in June 2004 that courts can decide whether foreign nationals held in Guantánamo Bay were rightfully imprisoned, CIA interrogators were told to take into account the possibility their actions would ultimately be subject to judicial review. 

“While the documents released today do provide more information about the development and implementation of the Bush administration’s torture policies, even a cursory glance at the documents shows that the administration continues to use ‘national security’ as a shield to protect government officials from embarrassment, criticism and possible criminal prosecution,” said Jaffer. “Far too much information is still being withheld.”

In May, Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York overruled some of the CIA’s claims that the documents released today were exempt from disclosure under the ACLU’s FOIA lawsuit. The judge is still considering the ACLU’s motion to hold the CIA in contempt of court for destroying hundreds of hours of videotape depicting the abusive interrogations of two detainees in its custody.

The documents released today are available online at: www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/36104res20080724.html
  
To date, more than 100,000 pages of government documents have been released in response to the ACLU’s FOIA lawsuit. They are available online at: www.aclu.org/torturefoia
 
Many of these documents are also compiled and analyzed in “Administration of Torture,” a recently published book by Jaffer and ACLU attorney Amrit Singh. More information is available online at: www.aclu.org/administrationoftorture

In addition to Jaffer and Singh, attorneys on the case are Alexa Kolbi-Molinas and Judy Rabinovitz of the national ACLU; Arthur Eisenberg and Beth Haroules of the New York Civil Liberties Union; Lawrence S. Lustberg and Melanca D. Clark of the New Jersey-based law firm Gibbons P.C.; and Shayana Kadidal and Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights.

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