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deminks

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Tue Apr 16, 2013, 03:34 AM Apr 2013

U.S. Practiced Torture After 9/11, Nonpartisan Review Concludes

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/world/us-practiced-torture-after-9-11-nonpartisan-review-concludes.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0

WASHINGTON — A nonpartisan, independent review of interrogation and detention programs in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks concludes that “it is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture” and that the nation’s highest officials bore ultimate responsibility for it.

The sweeping, 577-page report says that while brutality has occurred in every American war, there never before had been “the kind of considered and detailed discussions that occurred after 9/11 directly involving a president and his top advisers on the wisdom, propriety and legality of inflicting pain and torment on some detainees in our custody.” The study, by an 11-member panel convened by the Constitution Project, a legal research and advocacy group, is to be released on Tuesday morning.

Debate over the coercive interrogation methods used by the administration of President George W. Bush has often broken down on largely partisan lines. The Constitution Project’s task force on detainee treatment, led by two former members of Congress with experience in the executive branch — a Republican, Asa Hutchinson, and a Democrat, James R. Jones — seeks to produce a stronger national consensus on the torture question.

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Mr. Hutchinson, who served in the Bush administration as chief of the Drug Enforcement Administration and under secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, said he “took convincing” on the torture issue. But after the panel’s nearly two years of research, he said he had no doubts about what the United States did.

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U.S. Practiced Torture After 9/11, Nonpartisan Review Concludes (Original Post) deminks Apr 2013 OP
. blkmusclmachine Apr 2013 #1
It is very unfortunate (and maybe calculated?) choie Apr 2013 #2

choie

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2. It is very unfortunate (and maybe calculated?)
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 05:28 AM
Apr 2013

that the Times chose today to publish this article -- with the events in Boston as headlines, nobody is going to pay attention to it...

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