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Making It Up As They Go Along
You hear a lot about the administration's torture regime, but not a lot about the process of how we got to where we are.
Say hello to TPM alum and drinking buddy Spencer Ackerman at his new muckraking home, The Washington Independent. In his first big piece, Spencer looks at how the CIA ended up implementing a system where "U.S. interrogators are still mostly in the dark—in the dark not only about al-Qaeda, but about how to effectively elicit vital national-security information from the detainees in its custody."
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Comments (3)
Spencer wrote on January 28, 2008 10:59 AM:Next round's on me, man. Hey TPM readers. I've missed you guys.
Dusty wrote on January 28, 2008 12:14 PM:Good writeup..I will be linking to it shortly..Thanks for the heads up.
J Jeffries wrote on January 28, 2008 6:11 PM:I look forward to civil lawsuits against government employees
violated the civil rights of prisoners-of-war.
I also look forward to civil lawsuits for property damage against The White House and 98 per cent of Congress who voted for the invasion of Iraq. I am also pessimistic given that the legislative and judicial branches have been merged into the executive branch.
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