Report Shows Tight C.I.A. Control on Interrogations

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/us/26prison.html?_r=1&hp

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From: barry levine
Date: Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:43 AM
Subject: re: Report Shows Tight C.I.A. Control on Interrogations
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

The U.S. Constitution enumerates the sources of the laws by which we are governed. It permits no exception in which the guidelines of the department of Justice, or of the C.I.A.--no matter how minutely detailed--supersede our treaty obligations and our statutory laws. We look to Attorney General Holder to faithfully execute the law which forbids torture. If the C.I.A. guidelines violate that law, their authors should also be investigated.

Barry Levine