That's different than a denial, as Froomkin observes. There a…
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That's different than a denial, as Froomkin observes. There are, I think, two options. Either the president was utterly unaware of a torture session of a key al Qaeda suspect where the methods were, according to Kiriakou, meticulously recorded and approved all the way up the chain of command; or he knew all of it. Either he is a war criminal or an incompetent. I don't think he's that incompetent. The more we find out, the clearer it is that the torture program was the primary pillar of this pres
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