The Justice Department’s August 1, 2002, memo allowed for the use of torture against enemy combatants. “The radical legal reasoning in the document held that international laws forbidding torture did not apply to the commander in chief because Congress ‘may no more regulate the President’s ability to detain and interrogate enemy combatants than it may regulate his ability to direct troop movements on the battlefield.’ ”
– Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Page 241