File:20020109 Yoo Delahunty Geneva Convention memo.pdf

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English: January 9, 2002 Memorandum for William J. Hayes II, General Counsel, [United States] Department of Defense

From John Yoo, Deputy Assistant Attorney General
From Robert J. Delahunty, Special Counsel
Re: Application of Treaties and Laws to al Qaede and Taliban Detainees

One of the early infamous "torture memos" that was used to justify a Presidential finding that US troops need not follow the Geneva Conventions, as a strategy for "retaining flexibility" in interrogating the people who the US was sweeping into secret and non-secret prisons.
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(Original text : Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20050513213958/http://pegc.no-ip.info/archive/DOJ/20020109_yoomemo.pdf which is the Internet Archive Wayback Machine's copy of: http://pegc.no-ip.info/archive/DOJ/20020109_yoomemo.pdf

I've validated this copy against some other partial copies visible on the net. I uploaded it here because I couldn't find a full copy in PDF on a well-hosted site.)
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