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  There are 535 people with offices in Washington who need to hear that sitting pat on an admission of torture systematized and approved by the President of the United States, and carried out on prisoners, one of whom lodged a formal complaint as long ago as last summer, is unacceptable, and illegal under international law.

  Resources:

  Transcript of Michael Hayden's admission:

  http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/02/cia_director_confirms_details.php

  Transcript of Tony Fratto's remarks to the press:

  http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/02/20080206-3.html

  U.N.Convention Against Torture (CATCIDT)

  http://www.hrweb.org/legal/cat.html

  Third Geneva Convention (1949), see Article 3.1.a)

  http://tinyurl.com/e26ka (ICRC website)

  IHT article carrying statement by U.N. rapporteur on torture

  http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/06/news/UN-GEN-UN-Waterboarding.php

  Jane Mayer's article on the black prisons:

  http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/08/13/070813fa_fact_mayer

  BTW, Time Magazine is now covering fresh allegations of waterboarding at Guantanamo Bay.

  No mention whatsoever of torture or any statements and investigations in the front (A) section of the New York Times today. Disgusting behavior of a news organization.

  -- ondelette
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