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Published 1/10/2009 by Michael Abramowitz, Joby Warrick and Walter Pincus at Wash Post Obama Administration
President-elect Barack Obama introduced his nominees to head his national security team on Friday. But now Obama begins a perilous balancing act to fulfill his pledge to make a clean break with the detention and interrogation policies of the Bush administration while still effectively ensuring the...
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