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Article: Justice Department rewriting advice on prisoner abuse against Iraqi scandal backdrop

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CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
06-24-2004
Dateline: WASHINGTON
The Justice Department is rewriting its legal advice on how far U.S. interrogators can go to pry information from detainees, working under much different circumstances from the writers of earlier memos that appeared to justify torture.

The first memos were written not long after the Sept. 11 attacks, while the new advice is being crafted against the backdrop of prisoner abuse in Iraq.

Justice Department lawyers will spend several weeks reviewing and revising several key 2002 documents, especially a 50-page memo to the White House on Aug. 1, 2002, that critics have characterized as setting the legal tone for ...

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