Whether you have questions and family issues, real estate, immigration, or workplace law, findlaws law and daily life blog is here to help. Findlaws consumer blogs feature the best and latest in legal news, information, tips, trends, and analysis. The term torture memos was originally used to refer to three documents prepared by the. Programs used to perform the conversion from lqm file to pdf format. The olc is sometimes called the attorney generals lawyer. Standards of conduct for interrogation, torture, cruel, inhuman created date. Ten terrible truths about the cia torture memos part one. It seems odd that the administration would bother with legal niceties, but such is the nature of repressive regimes.
Introduction the bybee memo is one of a series of memos prepared for the bush administration that laid the legal groundwork for the torture of prisoners in iraq, afghanistan, and at guantanamo. In this memo, jay bybee states that the president has the power to ignore. Anything below this threshold merely constitutes cruel, inhuman or degrading kind of treatment. Step 2 clickandhold the cursor or somewhere where there is text and choose select all. In an overthetop attempt to prove that irony in silicon.
Torturing democracy key documents the national security archive. Association, diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders 426, 43945 4th ed. Please send a scanned pdf of all notes to the study file, as an email attachment, to the dmid. To save a pdf on your workstation for viewing or printing. Jul 21, 2010 in the 290page transcript released by the house judiciary committee pdf, with accompanying documents here, bybee, over the course of a days questioning, demonstrated three particular responses to his role in approving the memos. Step 3 clickandhold on the selected text and choose copy. They advised the central intelligence agency, the united states department of defense, and the president on the use of mental and physical torment and. A memo on torture to john yoo vincent iacopino opinion. See the list of programs recommended by our users below. Additionally you received a memorandum from the lias experience. Bybee memo and the yoo memo did not present a thorough, objective, and candid assessment of the law.
Fran davies, probe urged over torture memos, miami herald, august 5, 2004 at 6a. The bybee memo provides a psychological profile of abu zubaydah, followed by discussions of whether specific techniques amount to physical or psychological torture. The memos depictions of abu zubaydah as an alqaidah leader, as an expert in countertorture psychology, and. While we do not yet have a description of the memo file format and what it is normally used for, we do know which programs are known to open these files.
Dec 23, 2018 step 1 open the memo that you need to convert and tap it so that you see the cursor. Victoria parkerchristensen, epa region 8 air program to. Memos sent in 2002 from jay bybee of the office of legal counsel, department of justice, to the counsel to the president and to the cia presented a series of. By alex ward and zeeshan aleem updated feb 2, 2018, 2. A guide to the memos on torture the new york times. Every day thousands of users submit information to us about which programs they use to open specific types of files. Memos on torture, washington post1 august 5, 2004 at a4. I already read those tutorials but all of them give instructions to create a new pdf not convert text file to pdf. From late 2001 onwards, numerous memos were exchanged between the department of justices office of legal counsel and the white house, the counsel to the cia, and the department of defense regarding the detention and treatment of detainees in the war on terror. General counsel for the central intelligence agency, from jay s. On april 19, 2009, an editorial in the new york times said that bybee is unfit for a job that requires legal judgment and a respect for the constitution and called for bybees impeachment from the federal bench. That request was routed to the olc by then white house general counsel alberto gonzalez who desired the ability to quickly obtain information from captured terrorists and their sponsors. Darmer introduction it is commonly said that we are a nation of laws, not men.
Full text of bybee memo 2,671k pdf, findlaw december 30, 2004, olc memo, dept of justice jon yoo vs. Yoos memo on avoiding geneva conventions pdf document. On 1 august, 2002, assistant attorney general jay bybee provided a memorandum 1 to white house counsel alberto gonzales. Reflections from a temporary yoo colleague and erstwhile bush administration apologist m. John yoo and jay bybee as authors of the torture memorandum 5. Gonzales, counsel to the president, standards of conduct in interrogation under 18 u s. Memorandum regarding interrogation of al qaeda operative author. The torture memos, sometimes called the bybee memo or 8102 interrogation opinion, were a set of legal memoranda drafted by deputy assistant attorney general of the united states john yoo and signed by assistant attorney general jay bybee. Bybee ruling tosses inmate mental torture suit crime scene. Memorandum for the attorney general from adag david. In response to the criticism, bybee told the new york. Bob rogers has given john mcneil the computer and printer that our previous webmaster had been using. Gonzales, counsel to the president, parsed the language of a 1994 statute that ratified the united nations. Bp america production company, national historic preservation act from.
The cia and the white house ask the head of the criminal division, mike chertoff, and the ag, john ashcroft, for. Poor judgment yoo, bybee and the torture memos the. Step 4 open your word processor in my case kingsoft word and paste the text. They advised the central intelligence agency, the united states department. Office of the assistant attorney general washington, d. As a justice department lawyer under president george w. These definitions were justified as legitimate attempts to interpret what the memos authors olc lawyer john yoo and assistant attorney general jay s. Advising clients to commit war crimes with impunity seattle. August 1, 2002 standards of conduct for interrogation keywords.
These included a statement by the office of legal counsel olc on august 1, 2002, written by john yoo and jay bybee and. Save an electronic copy as well, if it is your companys procedure to do so. Step 1 open the memo that you need to convert and tap it so that you see the cursor. Memo from assistant attorney general jay bybee to alberto gonzales and. Interrogation of al qaeda operative the classified bybee memo. In the 290page transcript released by the house judiciary committee pdf, with accompanying documents here, bybee, over the course of a days questioning, demonstrated three particular responses to his role in approving the memos. Analysis of the classified bybee memo august 1 2002 based on the results of our investigation, we concluded that the classified bybee memo did not con.
Bybee, head of the office of legal counsel of the united states department of justice. Bybee, with the office of legal counsel in the justice. Everyday life is full of challenges that can require basic legal knowledge. Add any closing items and click next, and then click finish. Chip pitts debate, video, maguire center for ethics and public responsibility, southern methodist university. This 1963 manual was the culmination of the agencys studies into the coercive. It seems that lqm to pdf conversion is searched by users that try to export notes saved by quick memo in lg smartphones and convert them to pdf documents.
Waterboarding and the legacy of the bybeeyoo torture and power memorandum. Navigate to the directory in which you want to save the pdf. The memo examines the convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment, and its implementation in 18 united states code 23402340a. Table pdf of released and unreleased memos available. The term torture memos was originally used to refer to three documents prepared by the office of legal counsel at the united states department of justice and signed in august 2002. Bybee, although its principal author was apparently john c.
International law and the torture memos case western reserve. It is widely known that although bybee signed the memo, yoo. A set of legal memoranda known as the torture memos were drafted by john yoo as deputy. Yoo writes his memo analyzing the torture statutes. Memorandum regarding interrogation of al qaeda operative. Bush, jay bybee signed a 2002 memo approving waterboarding, sleep deprivation and other conduct by u. Counsel, in the infamous yoobybee memo, concluded that physical pain constituting torture must be equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death.
The caption was a cruel irony, an orwellian bit of business, because what the memo authorized and directed was the formal abandonment of americas commitment to key provisions of the geneva. The best course of action is to rename lqm to zip and extract the contents. The washington post has placed online the full text of an august 1, 2002 memo from the justice departments office of legal counsel olc to white house legal counsel alberto r. How jay bybee has approved the prosecution of cia operatives. In the spring ofthe abu ghraib prisoner scandal broke into the news, and in junethe bybee memo was leaked to the press. Friends of bybee have indicated that the jurist privately regrets the controversial memos inadequacies and growing notoriety. In wartime, the gravity shifts to the executive branch. Waterboarding and the legacy of the bybee yoo torture and. If you havent seen it already, see the introduction here. Howevert the authors did not consider whether subjects would be shackled, threatened, or beaten by the interrogators, to ensure that they t ined those positions. During the war on terror, the bush administration authorized the us central intelligence agency to employ enhanced interrogation techniques to. Enter your notes in the lower section of the memo form. Opr, but did not provide additional documents that opr obtained or generated during the course.
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