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powerlineblog.com - 4/27/2009
Dancing around the obvious
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The Washington Post continues its now-daily quest to persuade its readers that, in the words of today's front-page headline, the "effectiveness of harsh questioning is unclear." This time, the Post considers the case of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The Post concedes, as it must, that after the CIA ...
mcclatchydc.com - 4/25/2009
CIA official: no proof harsh techniques stopped terror attacks
— mcclatchydc.com — WASHINGTON — The CIA inspector general in 2004 found that there was no conclusive proof that waterboarding... or other harsh interrogation techniques helped the Bush administration thwart any "specific imminent attacks," according to ... (more) CIA official: no proof harsh techniques stopped terror ...

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corner.nationalreview.com - 4/26/2009
The West Coast Plot: An "Inconvenient Truth"
— corner.nationalreview.com — Critics of the CIA program are desperate to convince Americans that no valuable information came from the... interrogations of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) and other senior terrorists. They know that if our citizens learn the details of how enhanced ... (more) The West Coast Plot: An "Inconvenient Truth"

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newsweek.com - 4/27/2009
‘We Could Have Done This the Right Way’ | Print Article
— newsweek.com — The arguments at the CIA safe house were loud and intense in the spring of 2002. Inside,... a high-value terror suspect, Abu Zubaydah, was handcuffed to a gurney. He had been wounded during his capture in Pakistan and still had bullet fragments in his ... (more) ‘We Could Have Done This the Right Way’ | Print Article

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