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Letter from Attorney General John Ashcroft to Acting CIA Director John E. McLaughlin re: Confirmation that Contemplated Interrogation of Interrogation Techniques are Lawful
July 22, 2004 | DOJ | ACLU-RDI 6578
In the letter to Acting CIA Director McLaughlin, Attorney General Ashcroft confirms his advice that the use of certain interrogation techniques (other than waterboarding) in the interrogation of a particular detainee outside territory subject to U.S. jurisdiction would not violate the Constitution or any statute or treaty obligation the U.S. is a signatory to.
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