Torture memos draw fire

Torture memos draw fire: "WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats say Department of Justice memos contending that a wartime president is not bound by anti-torture principles could have laid the legal groundwork for the prisoner abuses that took place in Iraq and elsewhere.

Rep. Jane Harman of California, senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, today released excerpts of one internal Bush administration memo and called its views 'antithetical to American laws and values' in arguing that torture might be justified and that the president is above the law in his role as commander-in-chief.

'This memo is shocking in that it appears to justify torturing prisoners in U.S. control,' Harman said."