Executive Order 13491Active

Ensuring Lawful Interrogations

Barack Obama

January 22, 2009

74 FR 4893

Summary

Required all interrogations of detainees to follow the Army Field Manual, effectively banning the enhanced interrogation techniques (including waterboarding) used under the Bush administration's CIA program.

Topics

national securityinterrogationdetaineestorture

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