Posted by: zanshin, 2008-08-28 12:40

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Date: 2007-12-11 (Tuesday)
The Justice Department and National Security Council reportedly approved waterboarding and other "alternative" interrogation techniques in June 2002.
"It was a policy decision that came down from the White House."
-- John Kiriakou, former CIA agent who participated in interrogations of terror suspects, in a CNN interview






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