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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to prohibit the use of waterboarding and harsh interrogation techniques by ordering the CIA to follow military rules for questioning prisoners, according to two U.S. officials familiar with drafts of the plans. Still under debate is ...

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washingtonpost.com - 1/14/2009

Hill Briefed on Waterboarding in 2002

— washingtonpost.com — In Meetings, Spy Panels' Chiefs Did Not Protest, Officials Say By Joby Warrick and Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, December 9, 2007; A01 In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program ... (more) Hill Briefed on Waterboarding in 2002

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salon.com - 1/18/2009

Binding U.S. law requires prosecutions for those who authorize torture - Glenn Greenwald

— salon.com — (updated below - Update II) It seems fairly easy -- even for those overtly hostile to the basic rules of logic and law -- to see what conclusions are compelled by these clear premises: Associated Press, April 11, 2008 : Bush administration officials ... (more) Binding U.S. law requires prosecutions for those who ...

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google.com - 1/16/2009

The Associated Press: AP Top News at 3:33 p.m. EST

— google.com — 42 minutes ago WASHINGTON (AP) President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to prohibit the use of waterboarding and harsh interrogation techniques by ordering the CIA to follow military rules for questioning prisoners, according to two U.S. officials ... (more) The Associated Press: AP Top News at 3:33 p.m. EST

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ENDING “HARSH INTERROGATIONS,” BUT WITH AN ASTERISK: “However, Obama’s changes may not be absolute….
Instapundit — ... ENDING “HARSH INTERROGATIONS,” BUT WITH AN ASTERISK: “However, Obama’s changes may not be absolute. His advisers are considering adding a classified loophole to the rules that could allow the CIA to use some interrogation methods not specifically authorized by the Pentagon, the officials said, although the intent is not to use that as an opening for possible use of waterboarding.” Plus this: “There are some coercive techniques that he might employ on a ticking time bomb scenario, but he’ll distinguish himself by making it clear that ...

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The Anchoress — ... They only notice when you fail to do so. If you succeed at it, they just think you’re security-obsessed screw-up and if you fail, you’re a not-obsessed -enough screw up. Why would anyone want to be president? Inaugural blessings: They’ve been in the news a lot this inaugural. Did you know they only began in 1937? And here they are. All of ‘em. None too pithy. Obama: No torture…except maybe when its’ necessary. Never forget that in 2002 Nancy Pelosi and other ...