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Jan
27
2010
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Well, it's official now: John Kiriakou, the former CIA operative who affirmed claims that waterboarding quickly unloosed the tongues of hard-core terrorists, says he didn't know what he was talking about.
Apr
30
2009
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Given that Churchill had no qualms about gassing Kurds, shooting miners, immolating anarchists and so forth I doubt it was anything to do with superior morality, more to do with how useless torture is as a means of gaining information. What's interesting is Obama has appropriated one of the favourite figures of the American right. There's something about Churchill that mainstream US politicians love.
Apr
23
2009
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According to the new timeline, which compiles legal advice provided by the Bush administration to the CIA, Miss Rice personally conveyed the Bush administration's approval for waterboarding of Zubaydah to George Tenet, then CIA Director, in July 2002.
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Days after Miss Rice spoke to Mr Tenet, the Justice Department approved the use of waterboarding in a top secret memo. Abu Zubaydah was subjected to waterboarding some 83 times in August 2002.
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