The Justice Department [in the person of John Yoo] sent a legal memorandum to the Pentagon in 2003 asserting that federal laws prohibiting assault, maiming and other crimes did not apply to military interrogators who questioned al-Qaeda captives because the president’s ultimate authority as commander in chief overrode such statutes.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040102213.html
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