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Published 4/22/2009 at Yahoo! News: Politics News
AP - The CIA first asked top Bush administration officials for permission to subject alleged al-Qaida terrorist Abu Zubaydah to waterboarding in May 2002, three months before the Justice Department approved the simulated drowning technique, according to a newly declassified narrative of legal advice Bush administration lawyers gave to CIA.
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