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DOJ Document Day on Detainee Abuse

By Jeralyn

Update: CIA Director Leon Pannetta issued this statement to CIA employees today on the release of the documents.

Three documents are scheduled to be released today by the Department of Justice on detainee abuse.

• The 2004 inspector general’s report on abuses that took place at the Central Intelligence Agency’s secret prisons. Here are some tidbits already leaked.

• "A 2007 Justice Department memo reauthorizing the C.I.A.’s “enhanced” interrogation techniques, which former Vice President Dick Cheney has said provide evidence that the interrogation methods produced valuable information about Al Qaeda"

• "Justice Department memos from 2006 concerning conditions of confinement in C.I.A. jails."

Among the leaks are that the inspector general's report will recommend the reopening of some detainee abuse cases.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on August 24, 2009 (boomark / email).