Daniel Levin (attorney)

Daniel Levin served as Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel of the Justice Department from July 2004 until February 2005. On August 6, 2004, he sent a letter to the Central Intelligence Agency advising the CIA that it was lawful to use waterboarding as an interrogation technique, and he prepared early drafts of OLC opinions finding all 13 of the CIA's "enhanced interrogation techniques," including waterboarding, to be lawful under the federal torture statute, 28 U.S.C. 2340-2340A.^[1] Levin also signed an opinion on December 30, 2004, updating OLC's interpretation of the torture statute and replacing an unclassified August 2002 opinion by Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee that had previously been withdrawn by OLC.^[2]

Footnotes

1. ^ Shane, Scott; David Johnston (2009-06-07). "Lawyers Agreed on the Legality of Brutal Tactic". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/us/politics/07lawyers.html?hp. Retrieved 2009-06-07. 
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