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Waterboarding got nod from White House

By Joby Warrick

The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency's use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21021.htm

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Memos Confirm White House Explicitly Endorsed Torture
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/10/15

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Senator demands White House memos

Chicago Tribune

10/15/08

The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee accused the White House on Wednesday of withholding documents showing it authorized the CIA to use waterboarding and other tough interrogation tactics on suspected terrorists. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., was reacting to a report that two White House memos, in 2003 and 2004, gave the CIA written approval for using specific interrogation techniques on al-Qaida suspects...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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