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            <title><![CDATA[The Torture Loophole]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[New documents on enhanced interrogation techniques suggest the Bush administration did not seek proper legal clearance to grill detainees. 
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            <title><![CDATA[What's Missing from the CIA Docs]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Why is the Obama administration using heavy, retro-Bush era blackouts in a newly released CIA report? John Sifton combs through hundreds of pages for clues about the spread of torture and the marquee names who okayed it six years ago.
The CIA and the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cheney's Big Torture Speech]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As the former vice president takes the stage Thursday morning-at the same time as Obama-The Daily Beast's John Sifton on what to look out for, from defending interrogations to rehashing dubious claims about how they kept us safe.
At Dick Cheney's big...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Bush Administration Homicides]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[For five years as a researcher for Human Rights Watch and reporter, John Sifton helped investigate homicides resulting from the Bush administration's torture policy. His findings include: 
 &bull; An estimated 100 detainees have died during...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[New Torture Report Details Bushies' Role]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Eric Holder today declassified a confidential Senate report that provides a more detailed narrative of the role top Bush officials, including Condoleezza Rice, John Ashcroft, and the president himself, played in approving interrogation methods. 
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            <title><![CDATA[The Torture Problem Is Going to Get Worse]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama ruled out most prosecutions of CIA officers who participated in torture. But there are plenty of people left to investigate, John Sifton writes, and plenty of creative ways to do it.
In releasing several Bush-era memos from the Justice...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Torture Bind]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As the CIA digs in against criminal prosecutions, Obama must decide: Does he alienate the agency or push for justice?
The pressure seems to be getting to CIA Director Leon Panetta. On Monday night, a confidential report by the International Committee...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Is Leon Panetta Covering Up Torture?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Why doesn't Leon Panetta want the CIA investigated or prosecuted for torture allegations? Maybe because some of the men implicated, John Sifton reports, are the ones advising him.
On Monday night the confidential report of the International Committee...]]></description>
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