ACLU: Pentagon documents highlight interrogation methods

“This pattern is one of claiming national security as pretext for withholding information to cover up embarrassing information.”

Newly released Department of Defense documents shed light into the use of psychologists in military interrogations and the failure of medical personnel to report detainee abuses, the American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday.

'The documents reveal that psychologists and medical personnel played a key role in sustaining prisoner abuse _ a clear violation of their ethical and legal obligations,' ACLU attorney Amrit Singh said.

The ACLU obtained the newly unredacted documents in connection with a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed in 2004. The information also shows the military continued to use abusive interrogation methods after a 2003 directive meant to end such practices, Singh said. The government did not release details on the interrogation methods, she said. Read more