Saturday, May 2, 2009

How a Health Benefits Law Was Used to Write the Torture Memo

John Yoo, the author of one of the infamous Aug. 1, 2002, "torture" memos that formed the legal basis for so-called "enhanced" interrogation techniques against high-level terrorist detainees, used a statute governing health benefits when he provided the White House with a legal opinion defining torture.

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