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Torture Memos
The
Torture Memos
is a term originally applying to a set of legal
memoranda
drafted by
John Yoo
as Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the United States and signed in August 2002 by Assistant Attorney General
Jay S. Bybee
, head of the
Office of Legal Counsel
of the
United States Department of Justice
. They advised the
Central Intelligence Agency
, the
United States Department of Defense
, and the president on the use of
enhanced interrogation techniques
: mental and physical torment and coercion such as prolonged
sleep deprivation
, binding in
stress positions
, and
waterboarding
, and stated that such acts, widely regarded as torture, might be legally permissible under an expansive interpretation of presidential authority during the "
War on Terror
".
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