mahablog.com - 4/19/2009
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We’ve learned that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in one month. This begs the question: If torture is so good at extracting information, why did it need to be applied 183 times in one month?
Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times in August 2002. Of this, CIA officials ...
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online.wsj.com - 4/20/2009
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DAVID B. RIVKIN JR. and LEE A. CASEY
The four memos on CIA interrogation released by the...
White House last week reveal a cautious and conservative Justice Department advising a CIA that cared deeply about staying within the law. Far from "green ...
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The Memos Prove We Didn't Torture
emptywheel.firedoglake.com - 4/17/2009
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One of the most troubling aspects of the
Bradbury memos is the way they admit the CIA...
program had not been safe--particularly with respect to the way waterboarding and sleep-deprivation had been practiced--even while declaring those programs legal.
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The CIA IG Report and the Bradbury Memos
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Torture Documents: Who Cares Part II
Pirate's Cove —
... hand wringing and panty soiling over the treatment of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
I’ve put this detail in a series of posts, but it really deserves a full post. According to the May 30, 2005 Bradbury memo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in March 2003 and Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times in August 2002.
In the list of links at Memeorandum, there is only one conservative: Washington Monthly, The Mahablog, Outside The Beltway (Conservative), Moon of Alabama, American ...
Torture Documents: Who Cares Part II
Stop The ACLU —
... home of the Joe Lieberman in blackface picture, hand wringing and panty soiling over the treatment of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed I’ve put this detail in a series of posts, but it really deserves a full post. According to the May 30, 2005 Bradbury memo , Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in March 2003 and Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times in August 2002. In the list of links at Memeorandum, there is only one conservative: Washington Monthly , The Mahablog , Outside The Beltway (Conservative), Moon of Alabama , ...
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