Memo Shows Internal Bush Administration Effort to Ban Detainee Abuse Was Thwarted
Alberto J. Mora, the former eneral counsel of the United States Navy wrote a document three years ago. The document, which is marked "secret" but is not classified, is a twenty-two-page memo written by Mora. It shows that three years ago Mora tried to halt what he saw as a disastrous and unlawful policy of authorizing cruelty toward terror suspects. The memo is a chronological account, submitted on July 7, 2004, to Vice Admiral Albert Church, who led a Pentagon investigation into abuses at the U.S. detention facility at Guant�namo Bay, Cuba.
How an internal effort to ban the abuse and torture of detainees was thwarted, New Yorker, February 20, 2006.
