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bradblog.com - 4/23/2009

Fixing the Facts and Legal Opinions Around the Torture Policy

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Guest Blogged by Ernest A. Canning At the same time he took a step forward, releasing the four Justice Department torture memos he described as a "dark and painful chapter in our history," President Barack Obama assured CIA employees, who tortured under cover of these quasi-legal sophistries, ...

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online.wsj.com - 4/23/2009

Congress Knew About the Interrogations

— online.wsj.com — PETER HOEKSTRA Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair got it right last week when he noted how... easy it is to condemn the enhanced interrogation program "on a bright sunny day in April 2009." Reactions to this former CIA program, which was used ... (more) Congress Knew About the Interrogations

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online.wsj.com - 4/23/2009

Presidential Poison

— online.wsj.com — Mark down the date. Tuesday, April 21, 2009, is the moment that any chance of a new... era of bipartisan respect in Washington ended. By inviting the prosecution of Bush officials for their antiterror legal advice, President Obama has injected a poison ... (more) Presidential Poison

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propublica.org - 4/22/2009

Dozens of Prisoners Held by CIA Still Missing, Fates Unknown

— propublica.org — ProPublica Last week, we pointed out that one of the newly released Bush-era memos inadvertently confirmed that... the CIA held an al-Qaeda suspect named Hassan Ghul in a secret prison and subjected him to what Bush administration lawyers called ... (more) Dozens of Prisoners Held by CIA Still Missing, Fates Unknown

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Around the Blogroll and Elsewhere: Special "Sayid on Lost can have a clear conscience after seeing what our own executive branch did" edition
Brilliant at Breakfast — ... At Bradblog, a long and thoughtful post by a man whose father was waterboarded by the Japanese during WWII: Says Ernest A. Canning: "...for the moment, if such practices are not finally brought to an end, once and for all, hopefully through accountability for those who justified them --- fixing the facts around the policy --- the President's promise that it won't happen again is little more than a vague wish." ...