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US Attorney General Eric Holder appointed legal and security experts to head two high-powered task forces reviewing US policies on detention, interrogation and rendition.

Both task forces are to report to President Barack Obama by mid-July, a move likely to unravel policies which loosened Washington's rules on the treatment of prisoners and were endorsed by former president George W. Bush.

"These appointments reflect our commitment to develop sound options for handling detainees in the future as well as policies on interrogation and transfer that uphold American values and national security interests," Holder said.

The Attorney General appointed J. Douglas Wilson, currently the chief of the National Security Unit in the US Attorney's Office for the northern district of California to lead a task force that will review US policies on interrogation and the transfer of detainees.

Wilson's team will review whether the "Army Field Manual interrogation guidelines ... provide an appropriate means of acquiring the intelligence to protect the nation, and whether different or additional interrogation guidance is necessary," the US Justice Department said.

It will also examine US policy on rendition -- the transfer of individuals to other nations for interrogation -- and will establish rules ensuring policies "comply with domestic and international legal obligations ... and that individuals do not face torture or inhumane treatment."

Brad Wiegmann, a deputy chief of staff in the National Security Division of the Department of Justice, was appointed to lead a review of US detention policies, together with a representative of the Department of Defense.

President Barack Obama called for both task forces to be set up in executive orders that he signed on his first full day in office in January.

The Bush administration authorized the kidnapping of terrorist suspects, who were later sent to secret overseas locations where they were tortured, a practice dubbed "extraordinary rendition."