The 13 people who made torture possible

The Bush administration's Torture 13. They authorized it, they decided how to implement it, and they crafted the legal fig leaf to justify it.

13 key people in the Bush administration cannot claim they relied on the memos from the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel. Some of the 13 manipulated the federal bureaucracy and the legal process to "preauthorize" torture in the days after 9/11. Others helped implement torture, and still others helped write the memos that provided the Bush administration with a legal fig leaf after torture had already begun. Full Story »

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by Susan Kent Davidson - May. 19, 2009

This report draws together years of close reading of the details of so many major stories. It is dizzying to see so much work distilled into such a readable narrative, every sentence of which can be referred to a public document.

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