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Obama Tells Lawmakers in Private Meetng He Won’t Support Torture Probe

President Barack Obama has backtracked on statements he made earlier this week in which he indicated he was open to a 9/11-type commission to investigate the Bush administration’s use of torture, telling lawmakers at a meeting at the White House Thursday he now doesn’t support the idea.
Underscoring Obama’s new stance on the issue, White House [...]

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White House Intel Director’s Dissenting Views Scrubbed from Released Memo

Admiral Dennis C. Blair, White House Intelligence Director, told colleagues in a memo last week that some Bush era torture techniques did produce information helpful in the nation’s fight against terrorism, according to a story tonight on the New York Times website.
This is interesting for two reasons.  The first is obvious – Blair’s analysis could [...]

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Spanish Government Divided Over Indicting Bush Administration Torturers

An internationally renowned Spanish judge is attempting to prosecute six former Bush officials for their role in allowing torture at the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay.  Despite being urged by the Spanish Attorney General  to drop the case, Judge Baltasar Garzon has submitted the case to a lottery system which will now assign it [...]

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They Tortured to get their War of Choice

This was speculated upon since Marcy noted the 183 waterboardings of KSM in March 2003.
What was going on in March 2003?
McClatchy:
But for most of 2002 and into 2003, Cheney and Rumsfeld, especially, were also demanding proof of the links between al Qaida and Iraq that (former Iraqi exile leader Ahmed) Chalabi and others had told [...]

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