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"Morning Skim: The Bush Torture Memos"
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Bowser
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4/17/2009 5:09:06 PM
Can't help but remember. "The United States doesn't torture."
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Bowser
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4/19/2009 7:57:27 PM
Waterboarded the one guy 183 times. The other guy 83.
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Bowser
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4/20/2009 5:44:09 PM
Did they talk?
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ER
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4/20/2009 11:26:39 PM
A hx of waterboarding. "In 1947, the U.S. charged a Japanese officer, Yukio Asano, with war crimes for waterboarding a U.S. civilian."
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Bowser
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4/21/2009 4:19:00 AM
"charged with war crimes for waterboarding."
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Lindy
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4/21/2009 4:48:27 AM
The information you all keep wiping from your brains
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TB
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4/21/2009 6:29:26 AM
Read the history of that meeting. It's grim.
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Bowser
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4/21/2009 11:14:14 PM
Not "meeting." Meetings.
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TB
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4/21/2009 11:48:02 PM
You are right. There were several, same ground rules, same deception.
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Bowser
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4/22/2009 4:10:06 AM
The longest lasted 3 times.
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Bowser
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4/20/2009 11:56:03 PM
Try FDR for legal precedent
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E.P.
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4/17/2009 8:31:01 PM
Obama is handling this very astutely.
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ER
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4/17/2009 5:34:57 PM
It's a tough call on prosecuting Bush
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Buck Galaxy
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4/18/2009 5:34:43 AM
"Leaking the information works."
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Lindy
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4/18/2009 2:22:20 PM
The memos
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TB
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4/17/2009 6:19:15 PM
"...you would not deprive Zubaydah of sleep for more than eleven days at a time..."
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alcaray
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4/17/2009 7:03:25 PM
I guess that makes it all right.
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ER
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4/17/2009 6:43:25 PM
More
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TB
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4/17/2009 6:34:59 PM
Yoo and Gonzales
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Lindy
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4/17/2009 10:46:31 PM
Saving the World
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SDAI-Tech1
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4/18/2009 11:14:27 AM
re: Saving the World
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Jody
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4/18/2009 3:16:43 PM
"Gonzales and Yoo were fine choices"
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Lindy
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4/18/2009 2:19:27 PM
I'm sorry, but...
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TB
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4/18/2009 1:08:16 AM
re: I'm sorry, but...
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Lindy
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4/18/2009 3:52:42 AM
Yeah, and what about Reclus?
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ER
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4/18/2009 11:04:43 AM
re: Yeah, and what about Reclus?
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Lindy
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4/18/2009 2:04:57 PM
No one is named "Reclus".
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Bowser
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4/21/2009 12:03:51 AM
I'm with Tom
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alcaray
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4/18/2009 5:10:12 AM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.