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This week marked the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Convention Against Torture. The United States is a participant in the Convention, and in honor of the Convention, June 26th is recognized as an International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. In conjunction with the anniversary, the ACLU launched The Torture Database, which contains over 100,000 pages of documents obtained primarily through Freedom of Information Act requests filed by the ACLU. The compiled documents are related to the Bush Administration's rendition, detention, and interrogation policies and practices. 

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The notion that the CIA’s targeted killing program is still a secret is beyond absurd.  Senior officials have discussed it, both on the record and off.  They have taken credit for its putative successes, professed it to be legal, and dismissed concerns about civilian casualties.  If they can make these claims to the media, they can answer requests under the Freedom of Information Act.  The public is entitled to know more about the legal authority the administration is claiming and the way that the administration is using it.  The administration should release the legal memos that purportedly justify the targeted killing program, and it should release more information about the process by which individuals, including American citizens, are added to government kill lists.  It should also release the evidence that led the administration to kill three Americans, including a 16-year-old boy, last year.

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