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Truthout's Jason Leopold reports: "Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff advised the CIA between 2002 and 2003 that its agents had the legal authority to use techniques that included waterboarding on one of the agency's so-called 'high level detainees,' according to a little-known report published in January 2005. That interrogation was videotaped and the tape later was destroyed."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121907J.shtml



Bush Lawyers Discussed Fate of CIA Tapes

Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane report for The New York Times, "At least four top White House lawyers took part in discussions with the Central Intelligence Agency between 2003 and 2005 about whether to destroy videotapes showing the secret interrogations of two operatives from Al Qaeda, according to current and former administration and intelligence officials."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121907K.shtml

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Top Lawyers for Bush, Cheney Disussed CIA Tapes
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/19/5894/

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Motion Picture Association censors out US torture

Denial of US torture is everywhere, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) had decided that the US public will not be allowed to see posters for the documentary Taxi to the Dark Side because a hooded prionser suggests torture.

http://snipurl.com/1vk4e



Timeline On The Destruction of CIA Interrogation Tapes

Late 2001-Mid-March 2002: CIA Looks to Brutal Torture Techniques of Egyptians, Saudis, and Soviets in Setting Up Its Interrogation Program.

http://snipurl.com/1vk4f


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=videotapes
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chertoff
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Homeland+Security
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=waterboarding
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainees
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jason+Leopold
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mark+Mazzett
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Scott+Shane