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Salon Radio: Binyam Mohamed lawyer Clive Stafford Smith

A Guantanamo lawyer is blocked from communicating with Obama about his client's torture, and then threatened with prosecution for complaining.
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  • Thursday, April 9, 2009 11:17 AM

    Plausible deniability?

    There's a lot in James W. Douglass's book JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters about how, in the Cold War, presidents weren't told about a lot of the CIA's dirty deeds, so that there could be plausible deniability.

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