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huffingtonpost.com - 4/17/2009
Bush Torture Memos Released By Obama: See The Complete Documents
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As part of an ongoing court case, the Department of Justice released on Thursday memos issued by the Office of Legal Counsel between 2002 and 2005, detailing techniques used for interrogation of terrorism suspects. In doing so, President Obama declared: "While I believe strongly in ...
Obama to release OLC torture memos; promises no prosecutions for CIA officials - Glenn Greenwald
salon.com - 4/16/2009
Obama to release OLC torture memos; promises no prosecutions for CIA officials - Glenn Greenwald
— salon.com — (updated below) In a just-released statement, Barack Obama announced that -- in response to an ACLU FOIA... lawsuit -- he has ordered four key Bush-era torture memos released, and the Associated Press, citing anonymous Obama sources, is reporting that ... (more) Obama to release OLC torture memos; promises no ...

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politico.com - 4/17/2009
Obama consulted widely on memos
— politico.com — Senior adviser David Axelrod says Obama spent about a month pondering whether to release the memos.... (more) Obama consulted widely on memos

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Interrogation Memos Detail Harsh Tactics by the C.I.A.
nytimes.com - 4/16/2009
Interrogation Memos Detail Harsh Tactics by the C.I.A.
— nytimes.com — WASHINGTON — The Justice Department made public on Thursday detailed memos describing harsh interrogation techniques used by... the Central Intelligence Agency , as President Obama said that C.I.A. operatives who carried out the techniques would not be ... (more) Interrogation Memos Detail Harsh Tactics by the C.I.A.
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Better Angels
BlondeSense — ... case otherwise? To prove a point. Time will never erase that stain – as it shouldn’t regards torture now. So what point are we proving here? What is Obama telling America when he says we should all just forgive and forget ? That no matter what you do – if you do it under the umbrella of government – it’s fine; legal and fine. No one will hold you responsible – no matter how egregious your action. Well that makes me sick to my stomach. And it makes me wonder about Obama. What does he means by this? I can’t help but be suspicious.....and that’s a very bad thing. It begs the ...

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Whose Century Was That?
TomDispatch — ... both substitutes for the anodyne "enhanced" in the Bush administration's own description of the package of torture "techniques" it institutionalized and justified after the fact in those legal memos. The phrase was, of course, meant to be law-evading, since torture is a crime, not just in international law, but ...

alicublog — ON THE CONSERVATIVE TORTURE STRATEGY. I'm not sure how they expect to win with this. I can certainly see why conservatives would want to divert attention from the Bush Administration's record on detainee torture, and that the easiest route would seem to be ...

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"On a bright, sunny, safe day in April 2009."
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ABC's Charles Gibson, Jan Crawford Greenburg and George Stephanopoulos all stressed Thursday night how, Bush administration Justice Department memos clarifying what techniques interrogators could use with suspected terrorists, included what Stephanopoulos described as “torture with an insect” ...
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Statement of President Barack Obama on Release of OLC Memos, April 16, 2009 The Department of Justice will today release certain memos issued by the Office of Legal Counsel between 2002 and 2005 as part of an ongoing court case. These memos speak to techniques that were used in the ...
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