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Published 1/15/2009 at Reuters: Politics
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Eric Holder, U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's nominee to be attorney general, said he believed the controversial interrogation tactic of waterboarding, used by the CIA against three terrorism suspects, is a form of torture.
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