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星期六， 2008年7月26日
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備忘錄提供酷刑技術和代理的被指示的CIA參加審訊

紐約-美國公民自由聯合今天得到了三個被編輯的文件與布什政府的殘酷審訊政策有關，包括批准對酷刑的CIA的用途的一個早先被扣壓的司法部備忘錄。 政府在囚犯的治療的在美國被定購移交本文以回應信息行動(FOIA)訴訟2004年進行的由ACLU和其他組織持續的自由尋找紀錄。 國外監管。

「這些文件供應進一步證據，如果其中任一是需要的，司法部在它的監管批准CIA拷打囚犯」，說Jameel Jaffer， ACLU國家安全項目的主任。 「司法部扭轉了法律和一共在某些情況下忽略它，為了允許審問者使用美國的野蠻方法。 一次檢控當戰爭犯罪」。

ACLU得到的其中一本文今天是法律顧問(OLC)觀點一個早先未公開的司法部辦公室的一個被編輯的版本從批准CIA使用具體審訊方法2002年的8月，包括waterboarding。 備忘錄闡明，導致嚴厲精神痛苦的審訊方法不共計酷刑在美國之下。 法律，除非他們導致「害處持久的月甚至歲月，在行動被給予在囚犯之後」。 最初， CIA接受了它不可能證實的職位或否認這個備忘錄的存在; 它滴下位置在布什總統以後在2006年9月透露了CIA操作拘留中心國外。

其他二個文件，從2003年和2004年，是備忘錄從CIA與要求有關法律建議從司法部。 2003年備忘錄表示， CIA審問者由OLC批准使用酷刑實踐以「改進的審訊技術著名」。 備忘錄也表明，為這些技術使用的每個會議， CIA提供了，尤其， 「被使用的每個這樣技術的本質和期間」和「出席者的身分」。 文獻與CIA的酷刑會議相關，包括參與代理的名字，仍然被扣壓。
 
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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