Bush Administration Admits Torture

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This is big news, but I fear that it will not be treated that way. In their series of "exit interviews" both George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have pretty plainly admitted to authorizing "enhanced interrogation techniques." And now, an Administration official has acknowledged that those techniques are torture.

Despite the Administration's repeated claims that the United States does not torture (or the watered down, "it is not our policy to torture"), we now have official word that we do. And we also now know that the authorization for that go straight to the top. So, now what? Is this still going to get swept under the carpet?

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Detainee Tortured, Says U.S. Official

The top Bush administration official in charge of deciding whether to bring Guantanamo Bay detainees to trial has concluded that the U.S. military tortured a Saudi national who allegedly planned to participate in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, interrogating him with techniques that included sustained isolation, sleep deprivation, nudity and prolonged exposure to cold, leaving him in a "life-threatening condition. . ."

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