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Left Coast Lynn Donating Member (185 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 12:02 PM
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CIA Pressed for New Torture Documents by Guantánamo Detainees' Attorneys
NEW YORK - May 24 - Today attorneys representing Guantánamo detainees at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) announced that they will continue pressing the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to acknowledge the existence of documents relating to torture by U.S. officials, including an alleged Presidential Directive authorizing the CIA to establish new detention facilities abroad. In a brief filed on Monday, CCR counters the Bush Administration's assertion that it does not need to confirm or deny their existence, much less release them...

http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0524-13.htm
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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-25-06 01:34 PM
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1. does executive privilege trump criminal justice???
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