Leahy Seeks Newly Disclosed Documents: Interrogation And Detention Policies

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Leahy Seeks Newly Disclosed Documents
Relating To Bush Administration’s
Interrogation And Detention Policies

Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) has sent a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales seeking the release of previously unknown documents, relating to the Bush Administration’s interrogation and detention policies, that came to light as a result of a pending Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

Leahy, the ranking Democratic member of the Judiciary Committee – and the panel’s incoming chairman for the 110th Congress – has for years been pressing the Bush Administration for answers about its torture and detention policies in light of reports of prisoner abuse and secret renditions. Leahy had previously requested all documents relating to the treatment of detainees from the Department of Justice, the FBI, the CIA and the Department of Defense, though none of those requests produced these documents that the CIA acknowledged as part of a FOIA lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.

Leahy said the documents are important to Congress’s oversight duties. “The American people and their representatives in Congress are entitled to know the truth about the Bush Administration’s interrogation policies and practices that have engendered criticism at home, contributed so negatively to the image of the United States around the world and served to undercut our efforts against terrorism,” he said.


The text of the letter follows. A pdf version is available upon request.
http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200611/111706.html

[riderinthestorm]

1. K & R! We must begin repairing our global credibility and beginning by getting to the bottom of the

torture memos would be a great start. Beyond the fact that this is a human rights abomination, it is a legal abomination.

[librechik]

2. yeehah!

let's go get those Bush Bastards!

[twilight_sailing]

3. Back to sanity.

Thank you, Senator Leahy.

[texpatriot2004]

4. I wonder if Alberto will blow it off this time now that Dems have

an upper hand.

[texpatriot2004]

6. Oh wait, it's a whole new world come January...subpoena power

no more bullshit from * and Co.

[helderheid]

5. to the greatest