Executive order · Signed July 20, 2007

Interpretation of the Geneva Conventions Common Article 3 as Applied to a Program of Detention and Interrogation Operated by the Central Intelligence Agency

Executive Order 13491, signed January 22, 2009, revoked this order.

President George W. Bush signed it on July 20, 2007. Published in the Federal Register on July 24, 2007, 72 FR 40707.

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