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In a letter I received from the American Freedom Campaign, I was made aware of the following:

“In what we could only wish had been an April Fool’s Day joke, the Department of Justice declassified and released a 2003 Office of Legal Counsel memo advising the Pentagon that laws and treaties forbidding torture and other forms of abuse did not apply to U.S. interrogators because of the president’s wartime power.

What kind of harm, you might ask, would be prohibited under the standard established by this memo?  Very little, it turns out.  It declared that an interrogation technique must “shock the conscience” in order for it to be illegal.  But it gets even worse.  The memo also asserted, “Whether conduct is conscience-shocking turns in part on whether it is without any justification.”

Here’s a link to that memo in case you can’t click on it above:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040102213.html 

If you’re outraged at this, please contact Congress and urge them to investigate this abuse of power:   http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2165/t/1027/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=23997

For more information of the progression of this atrocity, look at the WorldSave Forums here:  http://world-save.com/boards/index.php?topic=14.0 

Thank you,

Lia Cross 

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