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As protests over prisoner abuse mounted, top Bush administration officials produced new rounds of self-serving documents and legal opinions aimed both at preserving the torture program and protecting themselves from possible prosecution.

In this heavily redacted June 4, 2004, memorandum from CIA Director George Tenet to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, submitted the day after President George Bush announced Tenet's resignation, Tenet writes that the Justice Department authorized the CIA to use Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EIT) starting in September 2002; that EITs were used only on 鈥渢he most hardcore, senior terrorist figures,鈥� and that Congress had been fully briefed on the torture. The first two statements are blatantly untrue: occurred earlier in 2002; and the approximately 100 detainees who spent time at secret CIA blacksites included many who were far from 鈥渟enior terrorist figures.鈥� who was held for a time in the CIA's 鈥渄ark prison鈥� in Afghanistan and who was eventually released without charge from Guant谩namo. The extent to which Congress was briefed on the Bush administration's torture program .

Document:

• George Tenet Memo to Condi Rice, 6/4/04

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