Raw Story
April 15, 2009
By Greg Fulton

The Bush Administration’s legacy of torture interrogation may dip further into obscurity if the Obama Administration’s vow to decommission overseas detention black sites means evidence of torture would be destroyed.

That’s the fear the ACLU is voicing in a little-publicized letter this week to preserve any and all evidence relating to the recently-disclosed CIA black sites where terrorism suspects were held.

Days ago, it was reported that Spanish officials would seek indictments against members of the Bush Administration for allegedly authorizing torture, and a Wall Street Journal article claimed that the current administration “is leaning toward keeping secret some graphic details of tactics allowed in Central Intelligence Agency interrogations.”

“Among the details in the still-classified memos is approval for a technique in which a prisoner’s head could be struck against a wall as long as the head was being held and the force of the blow was controlled by the interrogator, according to people familiar with the memos,” the paper reported. “Another approved tactic was waterboarding, or simulated drowning.”

The ACLU letter specifically wants evidence preserved on behalf of a detainee currently held in Guantanamo, and was sent directly to CIA Director Leon Panetta.

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