Executive order · Signed January 22, 2009

Ensuring Lawful Interrogations

President Barack Obama signed it on January 22, 2009. Published in the Federal Register on January 27, 2009, 74 FR 4893.

Executive Order 13491

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Revokes Executive Order 13440, Interpretation of the Geneva Conventions Common Article 3 as Applied to a Program of Detention and Interrogation Operated by the Central Intelligence AgencySigned July 20, 2007

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