Let’s face it. The real question is not whether you would torture, because you would. If you believed that a nuclear device was in the center of New York City and that torturing the suspect was the only way to ...

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she learned in early 2003 that terrorism suspects were being subjected to waterboarding, and she accused the Central Intelligence Agency of misleading Congress earlier about the interrogation technique. Pelosi, trying to fend off Republican attacks ...

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Some conservatives are critical of President Obama’s April release of four memorandums authorizing the use of harsh interrogation techniques by the CIA and the military. Critics should keep in mind, however, that prior to the president’s action, a federal judge ...

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When high-ups at Central Intelligence Agency headquarters ordered the torture of Abu Zubaydah, they thought he had been withholding valuable information. There was no ticking time bomb, and no one ever claimed there was. They just thought he knew more ...

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A unit of Boeing Co., the second-largest U.S. defense contractor, faced an appeal court hearing over claims it falsified flight plans to disguise the CIA’s delivery of suspected terrorists to secret prisons where they were tortured. A lawyer for the ...

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Attorney General-designate Eric Holder called waterboarding a form of illegal torture and promised to restore the credibility of a Justice Department he described as "badly shaken" by "improper political interference." At Senate confirmation hearings, Holder signaled that President-elect Barack Obama will suspend military tribunals used to try suspected war criminals at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The tribunals must be "substantially revamped" to provide defendants with more due process and ensure fair treatment for suspects, he said.

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