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The Torture Hearings
ByZachary Roth has a very helpful round-up of today's developments at TPM. Zelikow's memo resisting the torture regime has been located. Then this:
Soufan also described in detail
the process of interrogating Abu Zubaydah, which he was involved in. He
said that when he and CIA officers used legal techniques, they quickly
learned valuable information, including that KSM masterminded the 9/11
attacks. But when a contractor came in and started torturing Zubaydah,
he quickly clammed up. Overall, said Soufan, the use of torture was
"harmful to our efforts to defeat al-Qaeda."
How many lives have been lost because of Cheney's insistence on torture?
