Leahy Calls For Gonzales Memos

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-VT, will be investigating the role of Alberto Gonzales in developing the Bush "interrogation policies". Let the digging begin. Senate Democrat demands CIA memos on detainee interrogations Associated Press Tucson, Arizona | Published: 11.18.2006 WASHINGTON — A Senate Democrat who will chair its Judiciary Committee next year asked the Justice Department to release newly acknowledged documents setting U.S. policy on how suspects in the war on terrorism are detained and interrogated. "The American people deserve to have detailed and accurate information about the role of the Bush administration in developing the interrogation policies … that have engendered such deep criticism and concern," Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., wrote Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Leahy demanded two documents whose existence the CIA recently acknowledged in response to a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union. "If President Bush and the Justice Department authorized the CIA to torture its prisoners, the public has a right to know," the ACLU said. Leahy also requested agency documents that interpret the scope of interrogation practices permitted and prohibited by the Detainee Treatment Act or the Military Commissions Act. Original At The Arizona Star Daily