talkleft.com - 10/15/2008
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Uneasy about the blessing it received from the Justice Department to engage in torture, senior CIA officials wanted express White House approval as political cover for its aggressive (and illegal) interrogation techniques. The repeated requests for a paper trail reflected growing worries ...
dailykos.com - 10/15/2008
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dailykos.com —
WaPo: The Bush administration issued a pair of
secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004...
that explicitly endorsed the agency's use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects -- documents prompted by worries among ...
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White House Approved Torture. (Like, duh.)
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