The Bush administration rescinded that memorandum five days before leaving office.
The detention program began when President George W. Bush signed a classified covert action memorandum six days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, which killed nearly 3,000 people.
Although they were called "Presidential Memorandums," two, at least, were indistinguishable from run-of-the-mill executive orders in that they applied to the heads of all executive departments and agencies.
His advice in frequent memorandums — one was titled "Seven Conditions of Victory" — were closely followed.
Aug. 1, 2002: The Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel OLCC) issues two memorandums (one classified and one unclassified) concluding that the CIA's proposed "enhanced interrogation techniques" did not violate the federal anti-torture statute.
On returning home in the evening he would jot down in his memorandum book four or five unavoidable visits or appointments for specified hours.
In the first months of the conflict, his role was limited to a memorandum or two on requisitioning policy and occasional meetings with a group of aging administrators from the First World War, whom he referred to as the Old Dogs.
The request cited a 2006 memorandum between two federal agents that said that Mr. Defreitas and others "appeared to want to carry out a terrorist attack in the United States, but that they currently lack the funding and logistical support to carry out the operation".
Memorandum goes two steps further – showing blogs that contribute to the discussion, as well as a permalink for the entire discussion group.
Macnaghten's memorandum named two other suspects ("Kosminski" and Michael Ostrog) and was written to refute allegations against a fourth, Thomas Cutbush.
An F.B.I. memorandum written four months later was filled with factual errors about Sandburg.
