6/8/2004

On June 8, 2004, “Someone leaked the August 2002 [John] Yoo/[Jay] Bybee torture memo to the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. The papers published devastating stories linking the scandalous abuses in Abu Ghraib [prison in Iraq] to the Bush Administration’s stunning legal policy authorizing everything short of near-death.”

 – Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Page 292