Is half a torture investigation better than none at all?

Holder has fallen prey to the sort of magical legal thinking that seeps through the whole CIA report: the presumption that if there's a legal memo, it must be legal. Full Story »

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Derek Hawkins
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by Derek Hawkins - Aug. 26, 2009
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Fabrice Florin
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by Fabrice Florin - Aug. 26, 2009

Pretending we are investigating and curtailing a torture program isn’t all that different from pretending we didn’t torture in the first place. More »

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John Louden
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by John Louden - Aug. 26, 2009

I found it tortuous (heh,heh) in places but in the main her points are well reasoned.

It’s hard to imagine who’s more demoralized and embarrassed today—the CIA, the Justice Department, the president, or the Office of ... More »

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