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Salon
by Mark Benjamin

President Obama vowed that ‘the United States will not torture’ only two days into his new administration. But one big question Obama hasn’t answered is whether and how to investigate notorious Bush-era interrogation and detention policies. On Thursday, 18 human rights organizations, former State Department officials and former law enforcement and military leaders asked the president to create a nonpartisan commission to investigate those allegedly abusive detention practices. Retired Maj. Gen. Tony Taguba, who investigated the famed abuses at Abu Ghraib, signed on to the effort. He explained his support in an interview with Salon...

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/02/20/taguba/index.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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