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Fri Mar 14, 2014, 08:44 PM Mar 2014

What the media fails to include in their torture report coverage

Lynch and Jones said they have recently reviewed the findings, which were kept almost entirely secret when the House and Senate Intelligence Committees released their final report in December 2002. Without disclosing specifics, the report said investigators found “information suggesting specific sources of foreign support for some of the September 11 hijackers while they were in the United States.”

Lynch demands release of portions of 9/11 report


What sort of sense does it make for the Bush White House to claim that they had to advocate a torture program out of desperation to "protect the homeland" when they were covering up Saudi links to the hijackers at the same time?

What sort of sense does it make for President Obama to continue pretending the torture program was implemented in good faith when he too continues to conceal the information in the redacted pages of the Joint Inquiry report?



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