Tag / waterboarding
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Bush defends Waterboarding, Iraq
In a rare television interview since leaving the White House in 2009, former President George W. Bush defended some of his more controversial decisions during his time in office. Speaking to NBC, he said that he believed that the use of Waterboarding on inmates at Guantanamo Bay was both legal and necessary. The interrogation method…
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Email: CIA Destroyed Interrogation Tapes
Recently released internal CIA email messages reveal that in 2005, Porter Goss, then head of the CIA, authorized destruction of videos that depicted harsh interrogation techniques being used against a terrorist suspect. These findings add more controversy to the Bush administration’s policies of dealing with people suspected of terrorism. The videotapes depicted the use of…
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