time.com - 4/20/2009
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So far, so good: The Administration was absolutely right to declassify the Department of Justice-CIA interrogation memos. But Obama should not stop there
online.wsj.com - 4/20/2009
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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 ...
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The Memos Prove We Didn't Torture
emptywheel.firedoglake.com - 4/17/2009
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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.
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The CIA IG Report and the Bradbury Memos
timesonline.co.uk - 4/19/2009
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NSN Daily Update 4/20/2009
democracyarsenal.org —
... CIA veteran Robert Baer applauds the release of the torture memos and says the Obama administration needs to reveal even more to the public. ...
Barry McCaffrey and Robert Baer: Investigate the Bush White House on Torture
Corrente —
... trench. But McCaffrey, who's got some cred with such veterans as H. Norman Schwarzkopf, wants an investigation into the Bush White House concerning torture. Moreover, he has a strong opinion about the matter with which I completely agree:
"We should never, as a policy, maltreat people under our control, detainees. We tortured people unmercifully. We probably murdered dozens of them during the course of that, both the armed forces and the C.I.A."
Robert Baer is an intelligence analyst and author now; but he used to be a real-life ...
Answers Needed
The American Scene —
... is the thing. Yes, it is demoralizing to the CIA. Any time scandals appear in the press it demoralizes the CIA. But this should have been thought of seven years ago when this was started. That is not the CIA’s job, to do hostile interrogations. It’s classical espionage, which it was diverted from doing. And the CIA does best when it’s left alone. This was a very political decision and it was a mistake.
Here is Baer in a column he wrote for Time Magazine:
Despite the outcry it has prompted, ...
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