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Wednesday, June 23, 2004 Pay no attention to the memo behind the curtain President Bush's aides yesterday disavowed an internal Justice Department opinion that torturing terrorism suspects might be legally defensible, saying it had created the false impression that the government was claiming authority to use interrogation techniques barred by international law. Responding to pressure from Congress and outrage around the world, officials at the White House and the Justice Department derided the August 2002 legal memo on aggressive interrogation tactics, calling parts of it overbroad and irrelevant and saying it would be rewritten. They can disavow the memo all they want. The fact is, the memo exists. This was something they developed to redefine torture and probably hoped it would never see the light of day. Now that it has, all of a sudden they're spinning like mad. Don't believe the hype. UPDATE: Besides, they're not even addressing the issue: None of the documents provided by the White House governed practices at Abu Ghraib and other military prisons in Iraq . . . posted by chris at 8:33 AM   ------------------

    

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