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memoranda

me muh ran duh

  • n  a written proposal or reminder
  • n  a written proposal or reminder

  • Last week, backed by newly declassified intelligence reports, memoranda and other documents from the top levels of the Eisenhower Administration, he laid it out for a House .
  • Long before Bush Administration legal memoranda made techniques like waterboarding permissible for CIA detainees, many in Congress and the legal community assumed such methods were .
  • Last week Obama released previously classified memoranda detailing CIA interrogation techniques but pledged to withhold prosecution of those who led or administered the .
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  • Gary Hart in St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    Given the context of the times, I would discount the internal memoranda heavily,Hart said. "It's very possible that somebody at the middle levels may have been involved in things that the people at the top knew nothing about."
  • Patrick Leahy in Guardian Unlimited
    What troubles me substantively with the analyses in the memoranda is that they reduce the Rule of Law to the Reign of Politics. I believe there is much more to the separation of powers than the promise of ultimate remedies like the ballot box and... Christopher Edley http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Edley,_Jr.&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEhgIKhfhIx6OqdwKscccYXfjpGEA Washington Post http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/11/AR2008041102377.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHVbul-yiZTG4yQnQV0jMq6Wj1ffg Apr 11, 2008 62693 83551 memoranda In years past, the Justice Department's secret legal memoranda have sought to define torture down to meaninglessness," said Leahy. "I trust that today, Attorney General Mukasey will answer our questions and speak not as merely the legal...

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