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Cheney's "No-Brainer"

By The Daily Dish

Oct 28 2006, 3:43 AM ET

How did the Bush Office of Legal Counsel actually conclude that "waterboarding" - finally publicly confirmed as a "no-brainer" by the vice-president and practised by the U.S., following the Khmer Rouge - actually qualify as "legal" and "not torture"? Marty Lederman explains why here.



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