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Civil Liberties Lost, Waterboarding And The Legacy Of The Bybee-Yoo 'Torture-Power' Memorandum: Reflections From An Erstwhile Bush Administration Apologist, M. Katherine B. Darmer Jun 2009

Civil Liberties Lost, Waterboarding And The Legacy Of The Bybee-Yoo 'Torture-Power' Memorandum: Reflections From An Erstwhile Bush Administration Apologist, M. Katherine B. Darmer

M. Katherine B. Darmer

This symposium piece argues that waterboarding is torture and that torture is wrong. It reflects on the enduring legacy of the August 1, 2002 memo defining torture narrowly, which this paper describes as the Bybee and Yoo Torture and Power Memorandum [or 'BYTAP'].