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In a Guardian article by Zubaydah's attorney.
The Bush administration's false claim that my client was a top al-Qaida official has led to his imprisonment and tortureMonday 30 March 2009
This article was submitted to the CIA prior to publication. Passages redacted by the CIA are marked [...].
Much attention has been paid to the notorious secret torture memoranda signed by James Bybee and Alberto Gonzales, authored by John Yoo, and championed by Vice President Cheney and his aide-de-camp David Addington. [...]
The Senate armed services committee recently released a public report that establishes that almost immediately after Zayn's capture, a group of some of the highest-ranking government officials in the land met in the White House to orchestrate and oversee his torture, months before the now-infamous torture memoranda were issued in August 2002.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/mar/30/guantanamo-abu-zubaydah-torture
The memos are now available at http://www.aclu.org/olcmemos
