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michaelyon-online.com - 3/6/2009
Dark Times
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06 March 2009 While I work on dispatches regarding torture, it appears that some people are getting what they want; many have asked for proof that torture occurred, and that torture be defined. These questions are fair and important. Yet it seems that these questions often are asked with an ...
talkingpointsmemo.com - 3/6/2009
TPM: News Pages | Talking Points Memo | ACLU: CIA Confirms 12 Destroyed Videotapes Depicted ...
— talkingpointsmemo.com — (Editor's Note: This statement was released by the ACLU on March 6, 2009) ACLU: CIA Confirms 12... Destroyed Videotapes Depicted "Enhanced Interrogation Methods" FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 6, 2009 NEW YORK - As part of an American Civil Liberties Union ... (more) TPM: News Pages | Talking Points Memo | ACLU: CIA ...

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latimes.com - 3/3/2009
CIA destroyed 92 tapes of suspect questioning, confinement - Los Angeles Times
— latimes.com — Monday's acknowledgment involved a civil lawsuit filed in New York by the American Civil Liberties Union, which... sought details of the interrogation programs that followed the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. "The CIA can now identify the number of videotapes ... (more) CIA destroyed 92 tapes of suspect questioning, ...

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weeklystandard.com - 3/10/2009
Pederast Lobby Gets Behind Freeman
— weeklystandard.com — Scott Ritter, the former U.N. weapons inspector who was arrested " after allegedly communicating with an undercover... officer posing as a 16-year-old girl ," has joined six other fairly fringe figures to endorse Dennis Blair's appointment of Chas ... (more) Pederast Lobby Gets Behind Freeman

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Victory Caucus -- All Content — ... that rise above the fact that the names "Bush" and "Obama" are involved. This issue is bigger than you and I, and it's bigger than any President./pblockquotepa href="http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1883383-1,00.html" target="_blank"CIA Veterans Blast Senate Probe of Operations Under Bush/a/ppemBy Bobby Ghoshbr /Time.combr /Washington Friday, Mar. 06, 2009/em/pp.....But even Agency veterans winced at the latest bombshell from Gitmo: the revelation that the CIA destr read ...

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