The Pentagon has released a now-defunct legal memo that approved the use of harsh interrogation techniques against terror suspects on grounds that President George W. Bush's authority during wartime trumps any international ban on torture.
The Justice Department memo, dated March 14, 2003, and released Thursday, outlines legal justification for military interrogators to use harsh tactics against al-Qaida and Taliban detainees overseas so long as they did not specifically intend to torture their captors.
Even so, the memo noted, the president's wartime power as commander in chief would not be limited by the U.N. treaties against torture.
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