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Thursday, November 13, 2008 12:00 AM

Obama's plans for probing Bush torture

President Bush could pardon officials involved in brutal interrogations -- but he may also face a sweeping investigation under the new president.

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  • Thursday, November 13, 2008 12:49 PM

    This one...is on the Obama transition team

    Brennan has no argument with torture...

    Except that it doesn't work really actually awfully very well..

    Without more transparency, the value of the C.I.A.’s interrogation and detention program is impossible to evaluate.

    Setting aside the moral, ethical, and legal issues, <==> supporters,

    such as John Brennan, acknowledge that much of the information that coercion produces is unreliable.”

    http://www.pierretristam.com/Bobst/07/wf081007.htm

    And so just to set aside these simple civil liberty quibblings, then...

    And he's on any Obama team? WTF are? they thinking.

    [mybolds & stuff]

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