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Thursday, April 16, 2009

If you're in the CIA and waterboarded people during the Bush regime, you're in no trouble whatsoever.

And the debate continues re the greatest pardon (although unofficial) of a President by another President since Ford let Nixon off the hook for crimes/misdemeanors in 1974.
http://www.newser.com/article/d97jnksg0/sources-obama-administration-wont-prosecute-cia-officials-who-used-waterboarding.html#continuedBelow
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/16/bush-torture-memos-releas_n_187867.html
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/feature/2009/04/16/waterboarding_olc/
http://news.aol.com/article/torture-probe-spain/403627
http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/04/19/impeach_bybee/index.html?source=newsletter
Posted by Terry McCarty at 1:24 PM
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Labels: Barack Obama, CIA interrogation techniques, George W. Bush, Leon Panetta, torture, waterboarding

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