Justice Department Declassifies Memo on Military Interrogations - Homeland Security Digital Library Weblog

Yesterday, the Justice Department declassified and publicly released a 2003 legal memorandum prepared in response to a request from the Pentagon to “examine the legal standards governing military interrogations of alien unlawful combatants held outside the United States,” including both international and domestic law. The memo concludes that the President’s status as Commander in Chief overruled most laws and international agreements, leaving military interrogators free of any such restrictions.