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corner.nationalreview.com - 4/20/2009
Sounds Like Torture to Me
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I've always been on the fence about whether waterboarding constituted torture. But if the reports are true that the CIA used it scores of times in a single month on a single prisoner, than I think the threshhold has been met. Debating wether it was worth it still seems open to debate, depending ...
theplumline.whorunsgov.com - 4/21/2009
Obama And Top Advisers Scale Back Use Of Word “Torture”
— theplumline.whorunsgov.com — The word "torture" apparently has all but vanished from the White House lexicon.... (more) Obama And Top Advisers Scale Back Use Of Word “Torture”

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online.wsj.com - 4/20/2009
The Memos Prove We Didn't Torture
— online.wsj.com — 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 ... (more) The Memos Prove We Didn't Torture

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washingtonindependent.com - 4/21/2009
So Much Torture Disclosure to Be Had
— washingtonindependent.com — Former Vice President Dick Cheney — the avatar of secrecy — really did say this last night... . Daphne puts together a wish list : [I]f there are memos showing that torture and the CIA’s other “extreme” interrogation techniques were successful, I’d like ... (more) So Much Torture Disclosure to Be Had

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Opinionator — ... , has had an effect. “I’ve always been on the fence about whether waterboarding constituted torture,” writes Jonah Goldberg today at the National Review . “But I think waterboarding someone 183 times in a month does amount to torture no matter how you slice it.” At BeliefNet, Rod Dreher links to a post at the American Conservative by Philip Giraldi, a former C.I.A. agent, in which ...

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White House: US has tools needed to protect nation (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 4/19/2009
AP - The White House on Sunday pushed back aggressively against criticism that national security has been undermined by releasing classified Bush-era interrogation memos over the objections of some former CIA chiefs.
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Unresolved debate in DOJ memos: Does torture work? (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 4/22/2009
AP - Interrogators have centuries of experience extracting information from the unwilling. Medieval inquisitors hanged heretics from ceilings. Salem magistrates used fire to elicit witchcraft confessions. And CIA officers waterboarded terrorism ...
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AP - The brutal treatment of terror detainees and prisoners by members of the U.S. military wasn't the work of "a few bad apples," according to a Senate report. Instead, it followed directly from the CIA's use of harsh interrogation techniques during ...
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