Memorandum for the Files from Jack L. Goldsmith III, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Re: Advice to the Department of Defense on Interrogations

May 11,2004 MEMORANDUM FOR THE FILES From: Jack L. Goldsmith III Assistant Attorney General Re: Advice to the Department of Defense on Interrogations On April 23, 2004, OLC advised the Department of Defense that four techniques for interrogation of a prisoner at Guantanamo would be lawful, if justified by military necessity and if conducted in accordance with the Secretary of Defense's memorandum of April 15, 2003, including Attachment B, which specified a variety of safeguards (such as "appr...