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msnbc.msn.com - 1/14/2009
Bush: ‘We do not torture’ terror suspects - Security- msnbc.com
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PANAMA CITY, Panama - President Bush on Monday defended U.S. interrogation practices and called the treatment of terrorism suspects lawful. “We do not torture,” Bush declared in response to reports of secret CIA prisons overseas. Bush supported an effort spearheaded by Vice President Dick Cheney ...
rossdouthat.theatlantic.com - 1/21/2009
The Pro-Cheney Case For A Torture Commission
— rossdouthat.theatlantic.com — As Daniel Larison notes, the one place where Obama explicitly invoked "false choices" in yesterday's speech was... his Bush-rebuking reference to "the choice between our safety and our ideals." This comes a week after Evan Thomas and Stuart Taylor ... (more) The Pro-Cheney Case For A Torture Commission

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swampland.blogs.time.com - 1/13/2009
More on Torture
— swampland.blogs.time.com — A number of readers have taken me to task for not calling for the prosecution of George... Bush et al for war crimes. Glenn Greenwald has now piled on . Let me say this: I would have no moral, legal or spiritual problem with the Obama Administration ... (more) More on Torture

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huffingtonpost.com - 1/9/2009
Cheney: Bush Doesn't Need To Apologize For Not Foreseeing Economic Crisis
— huffingtonpost.com — WASHINGTON — Vice President Dick Cheney said Thursday that he sees no reason for President George W.... Bush to pre-emptively pardon anyone at the CIA involved in harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists. "I don't have any reason to believe ... (more) Cheney: Bush Doesn't Need To Apologize For Not ...

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The Reaction:  "We do not torture."

The Moderate Voice:  “We Do Not Torture.”

Politics on HuffingtonPost.com:  Frank Naif: CIA Director Panetta: reform suffers for Bush apparatchiks and spy chiefs

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"We do not torture."
The Reaction — By Michael J.W. Stickings So said President Bush in 2005 (when asked about reports of secret CIA prisons). And yet, in truth, the U.S. does torture. So says Susan Crawford, the convening authority of the Guantanamo military commissions, a Gates appointee and Bush administration official: The top Bush administration official in ...

“We Do Not Torture.”
The Moderate Voice — So said President Bush in 2005 (when asked about reports of secret CIA prisons). And yet, in truth, the U.S. does torture. So says Susan Crawford, the convening authority of the Guantanamo military commissions, a Gates appointee and Bush administration official: The top Bush administration official in charge of deciding whether to bring Guantanamo Bay detainees to trial has concluded that the U.S. military tortured a Saudi national who allegedly planned to participate in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, interrogating him with ...

Frank Naif: CIA Director Panetta: reform suffers for Bush apparatchiks and spy chiefs
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Of course that consensus deteriorated--it was built on lies and outhouse lawyering. No less an eminence than President Bush denied that the US used torture and illegal imprisonment in the fight against terrorism. Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld assured Americans and the world that Guantanamo housed only "the worst of the worst." To drum up support for invading Iraq, Bush officials ...

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