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Coming Soon: Declassified Bush-Era Torture Memos

Stress Test: The content of the memos could embarrass the CIA and amplify calls for a 'truth commission' (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Over objections from the U.S. intelligence community, the White House is moving to declassify-and publicly release-three internal memos that will lay out, for the first time, details of the "enhanced" interrogation techniques approved by the Bush administration for use against "high value" Qaeda detainees. The memos, written by Justice Department lawyers in May 2005, provide the legal rationale for waterboarding, head slapping and other rough tactics used by the CIA.