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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 4/20/2009
They Waterboarded Him 183 Times In One Month
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One of the disadvantages of relying on a torture-regime for the facts about the torture they have been practising is that they have an interest in lying. And the job of a journalist in these matters - especially after the torrent of deception that came out of the Bush White House - is to ...
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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McCain Reacts To KSM Being Waterboarded 183 Times: ‘One Is Too Much. Waterboarding Is Torture’
thinkprogress.org - 4/20/2009
McCain Reacts To KSM Being Waterboarded 183 Times: ‘One Is Too Much. Waterboarding Is Torture’
— thinkprogress.org — This morning on Fox News, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) responded to the startling information — first noted by blogger Marcy Wheeler — that detainee Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times . “It’s unacceptable,” ... (more) McCain Reacts To KSM Being Waterboarded 183 Times: ‘One ...

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emptywheel.firedoglake.com - 4/17/2009
The CIA IG Report and the Bradbury Memos
— emptywheel.firedoglake.com — 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. (more) The CIA IG Report and the Bradbury Memos

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JammieWearingFool:  Practice Makes Perfect: Two AQ Honchos Waterboarded 266 Times

democracyarsenal.org:  Wilkerson v. Cheney

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Practice Makes Perfect: Two AQ Honchos Waterboarded 266 Times
JammieWearingFool — ... likely to become part of the debate about the morality and efficacy of interrogation methods that the Justice Department under the Bush administration declared legal even though the United States had historically treated them as torture. Since some are apparently upset waterboarding may not be all that effective, new methods of torture now include reading aloud NY Times fashion stories on Michele Obama, Twitter updates from Meghan McCain , and feigned outrage from RawMuscleGlutes . Labels: Abu Zubaydah , Khalid Sheikh Mohammed , ...

Wilkerson v. Cheney
democracyarsenal.org — ... This, from someone who was on the inside at the time, holds up the what a lot of people have been saying for a while, that that KSM’s 183 waterboards in the ...

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C.I.A. interrogators used the near-drowning technique, which Obama administration officials have described as torture, 266 times on two key prisoners from Al Qaeda.
Cafferty: Waterboarding 2 members of al Qaeda 266 times constitute a crime? — CNN Political Ticker 4/21/2009
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