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politics.theatlantic.com - 4/17/2009
What The CIA Did
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The Justice Department today released four internal memorandums that supplied the legal basis for the program of torture and aggressive interrogation techniques used at so-called CIA "Black Sites" during the Bush administration and, at the same time, granted extraordinary legal safe harbor for ...
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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Newly Released Memo Inadvertently Reveals CIA Held (and Abused) Missing Prisoner
propublica.org - 4/17/2009
Newly Released Memo Inadvertently Reveals CIA Held (and Abused) Missing Prisoner
— propublica.org — A newly released memo inadvertently reveals the name of a 'ghost detainee' Among the OLC memos released... today , one appears to inadvertently reveal that a top al-Qaida suspect captured in northern Iraq in January 2004 was held by the CIA in a secret ... (more) Newly Released Memo Inadvertently Reveals CIA Held (and ...

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CIA employees won't be tried for waterboarding
msnbc.msn.com - 4/16/2009
CIA employees won't be tried for waterboarding
— msnbc.msn.com — The Obama administration is telling CIA officials who used waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics on terror... suspects that they won't be prosecuted by the Justice Department. (more) CIA employees won't be tried for waterboarding

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Fired Up! Missouri:  Bond upset that people know the US tortured detainees, not that the US tortured detainees

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Bond upset that people know the US tortured detainees, not that the US tortured detainees
Fired Up! Missouri — ... I don't think and the president doesn't believe it's the existence of enhanced interrogation techniques in memos that has made us less safe...It's the use of those techniques in the view of the world that has made us less safe. And that's precisely why the president moved swiftly to end [their use]... You can read the torture memos yourself here. Bond's statement about their release is here. Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic lists some of the key revelations from the memos: ...

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