New Afghan docs show feds prepared in 2007 to duck questions

A 2007 Foreign Affairs Department email tabled last week contains a series of 'key messages' on detainees.

New Afghan detainee documents reveal the government was prepared in late 2007 to duck questions about suspending detainee transfers because of torture in Afghan prisons and avoid confirming the fact that the transfers had already been secretly halted.

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