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Is Leon Panetta Covering Up Torture?
thedailybeast.com - 4/8/2009
Is Leon Panetta Covering Up Torture?
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Why doesn t Leon Panetta want the CIA investigated or prosecuted for torture allegations? Maybe because some of the men implicated, John Sifton reports, are the ones advising him. On Monday night the confidential report of the International Committee of the Red Cross on the CIA s secret ...
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 4/16/2009
Torture Memos Released
— tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com — Here are the OLC torture memos just released by the Justice Department... An 18-page memo [PDF], dated... August 1, 2002, from Jay Bybee, Assistant Attorney General, OLC, to John A. Rizzo, General Counsel CIA. A 46-page memo [PDF], dated May 10, ... (more) Torture Memos Released

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There are no excuses for ongoing concealment of torture memos - Glenn Greenwald
salon.com - 4/6/2009
There are no excuses for ongoing concealment of torture memos - Glenn Greenwald
— salon.com — Ever since October, 2007, the ACLU has been battling in court to compel the disclosure of three... key torture-authorizing memos authored by Bush's Office of Legal Counsel chief Steven Bradbury and approved by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in 2005.  ... (more) There are no excuses for ongoing concealment of torture ...

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online.wsj.com - 4/16/2009
Portions of CIA Memos Expected to Be Released
— online.wsj.com — EVAN PEREZ and SIOBHAN GORMAN WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is expected to release some operational details... of a Central Intelligence Agency interrogation program and its legal rationale, while seeking to keep secret the names of detainees ... (more) Portions of CIA Memos Expected to Be Released

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Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News:  The CIA Torture Cover Up

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The CIA Torture Cover Up
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... reported that Leon Panetta, the current CIA director, has taken the position that “no one who took actions based on legal guidance from the Department of Justice at the time should be investigated, let alone punished.” Yet a number of CIA officials implicated in the torture program not only remain at the highest levels of the agency, but are also advising Panetta. Panetta’s attempt to suppress the issue is making Bush’s policy into the Obama administration’s dirty laundry. Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-04-... /

Since February 2007
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... John Sifton notes a vital fact about the devastating International Red Cross report, ending any empirical doubt that the last president was a war criminal: ...

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