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            <title><![CDATA[A Senator Calls Out Cheney's Lies]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The former vice president's recent resurgence moved Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, to tackle what he calls Dick Cheney's "false statements" about torture head on.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[GOP's Torture Tricks Backfire]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Republicans may think they're being clever by pulling Pelosi into the torture controversy, but&nbsp; they're playing right into Democrats' hands. By Matthew Yglesias]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Busting the Torture Myths]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Scott Horton, who has led coverage of Bush-era wrongdoing, exposes three pervasive myths-and the surprising reason Cheney and Rove are keeping the issue alive.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[By Christopher Buckley]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[How to Torture the Bush Six]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Torture-memo authors John Yoo and Jay Bybee will likely not be prosecuted, but Paul Campos says the legal profession can punish the men who sanctioned war crimes.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Torture Doesn't Work]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A former senior interrogator in Iraq says that abusing prisoners results in unreliable information, costs American lives, and it still hasn't turned up Bin Laden.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Abu Ghraib Torture Photos]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Santorum: McCain Doesn't Understand Torture]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This won't turn out well.  Speaking with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Tuesday, former senator and current GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum had some harsh words for his former colleague John McCain: "He doesn't understand how enhanced...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain Slams Waterboarding]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Senator John McCain is taking a stand against those who credit "enhanced interrogation" with the killing of Osama bin Laden. In an op-ed in The Washington Post, McCain calls out former attorney general Michael Mukasey for claiming that waterboarding of...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Syria's Assad to Release Political Prisoners]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bahrain Dissident Dies in Custody]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Bahrain's government says it doesn't torture, but this makes it hard to believe: A leading opposition figure has died in police custody, the fourth such death to occur in recent days. Kareem Fakhawri died about a week after he disappeared, following a...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Photos Depict Abuse by Gaddafi's Forces]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A gruesome trove of photos found Tuesday in Libya reveals brutal abuse by Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi's forces-while in Tripoli, his son Saif is promising reform with his back against the wall. The images, found in Zawiyah, show corpses bearing...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[BBC Journalists Tortured in Libya]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Groups Threaten W.'s Future Travel]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Just two days after former president George W. Bush canceled a trip to Switzerland, citing the threat of protests and prosecution of torture allegations, human-rights groups say they'll try to reproduce the feat elsewhere. The Center for Constitutional...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[U.N. to Review Manning's Conditions]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The U.N.'s top anti-torture envoy in Geneva announced he is reviewing a complaint filed on behalf of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the 23-year-old soldier accused of leaking a trove of documents and classified military video to WikiLeaks. The complaint alleged...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[ACLU Demands Criminal Probe of Bush]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The American Civil Liberties Union has joined a rising tide of human-rights activists calling for a criminal investigation of George W. Bush, after the former president admitted to authorizing torture of terror suspects. Bush writes in his book that he...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Britain: Torture Did Not Save Lives]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[British officials said that waterboarding terrorist suspects did not save lives in their country, despite the claims made by President George W. Bush in his just-recent memoir, Decision Points. One suspect, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, was waterboarded 183...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[No One to Blame for Destroyed CIA Tapes]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Special prosecutor John Durham doesn't have enough evidence to press charges against anyone for the destruction of 92 CIA videotapes, NPR reports. The tapes showed images of al Qaeda detainees Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri being tortured in...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gang Members Arrested in Anti-Gay Assaults]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In what's become a startling trend, an eighth suspect has been arrested in the anti-gay gang assault on three men in New York City, according to police. The man turned himself in at a Bronx police precinct Saturday afternoon and investigators are still...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[White House Invokes State Secrets]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Disabled Woman Tortured and Enslaved]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A horror story is developing in Kirkwood, Missouri, where the FBI arrested five men Thursday for imprisoning, torturing, and raping a mentally disabled woman over a period of five years. The indictment alleges that Edward "Master Ed" Bagley Sr., 43,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Woman Tortured Over Facebook Post]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Better update your privacy settings. After finding a message on his girlfriend's Facebook page, a California man flew into a jealous rage, torturing and imprisoning her for four days while the couple's 3-year-old child and the victim's 13-year-old were...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Saudi Judge Pursues Spine-Cutting]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A Saudi judge is reportedly asking hospitals whether they can sever the spinal cord of a man found guilty of paralyzing another man in a fight. The victim lost his foot and was left paralyzed after a fight that, according to his brother, involved a...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[CIA Overreached on Interrogation]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The House Judiciary Committee released a transcript Thursday of its May interview with Jay Bybee, former head of the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel under George W. Bush's tenure, in which Bybee said that the CIA used interrogation...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Britain Tortured Own Citizens]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Formerly classified documents show the U.K. tortured its own citizens amid increased security measures after Sept. 11. Some of the papers implicate former Prime Minister Tony Blair's office, and new P.M. David Cameron announced an investigation into...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bush: I'd Waterboard KSM Again]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[All this time off apparently hasn't given George W. Bush room to rethink some of his more controversial decisions: On Wednesday, the former president told the Economic Club of Grand Rapids, Michigan, "Yeah, we waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. I'd...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Investigation: Chechen President Ordered Kidnapping]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Chechnya's President Ramzan Kadyrov ordered the kidnapping of exiled whistle-blower Umar Israilov, an Austrian investigation has found. Kadryov, who is backed by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, has denied any role in Israilov's death. Austrian...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Iraqi Gov't Oversaw Torture Prison]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Under the jurisdiction of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's military office, hundreds of Sunni men were detained by the Iraqi army and sent to a secret prison where they were routinely tortured until the country's Human Rights Ministry gained access to the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[CIA Boss Joked About Destroyed Torture Tapes]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Former CIA director Porter Goss was OK with the decision to destroy tapes depicting brutal interrogations of terror suspects in 2005-and even joked about it later. New documents obtained by the ACLU show that Goss "agreed" to the decision and an...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The CIA's 'Salt Pit']]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Grisly New Details on Waterboarding]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A sometimes-heard defense of waterboarding is that American soldiers regularly undergo it as part of their training to resist enemy interrogations. But new details uncovered in government memos show that the "[CIA's] methods went far beyond anything...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bush Lawyers Cleared]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Soldier Waterboards 4-Year-Old Daughter]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[U.S. Army soldier Joshua Tabor has admitted to waterboarding his 4-year-old daughter because she couldn't recite the alphabet, according to police. Tabor, stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington, was arrested after being seen walking around his...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Obama administration has asked an appeals court to dismiss a lawsuit accusing John Yoo, the Bush administration attorney, of authorizing the torture of Jose Padilla, the American citizen arrested in 2002 and accused of planning to detonate a dirty...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[A detention camp operated by the American military at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan is holding prisoners for extended periods of time in windowless concrete single-person cells, according to former prisoners and human-rights workers. The site, which...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Two Afghan teenagers have come forward to say that they were abused while being held in a secretive holding center on Bagram Air Base. Issa Mohammed, 17, and Abdul Rashid, who said he is younger than 16, told The Washington Post that U.S. guards in...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lawyer: Hundreds of Unheard Abuse Claims]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Phil Shiner, a U.K. lawyer representing Iraqi victims in 33 cases of abuse being brought against British soldiers, says that there could be hundred of other cases currently being ignored. Among the accusations in the cases Shiner is handling, which are...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Torture Can be Wrong and Still Work]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[German authorities used beatings and threats of torture to get Magnus G&auml;fgen to confess to killing a child. Stephen Carter on why, if the goal is to obtain information, torture can work. Plus, full coverage of Osama bin Laden's death.
Unless you...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Stephen L. Carter]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 11 May 2011 22:52:01 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[May 8: 7 Best Moments From Sunday Talk]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Heated discussions about Pakistan's involvement with bin Laden, Cheney wants to know why we don't waterboard, Condoleezza Rice defends Tora Bora, and more in our Sunday talk round up.
Pakistani Ambassador: Trust Us!
In an interview with This Week's...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Illegal Interrogations Hurt the U.S.]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Some are arguing that intel obtained from detainees under torture led us to bin Laden. But Andrea Prasow says that had we stuck to lawful tactics, we might have found him even sooner.
When I was a defense attorney in the Office of Military Commissions...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Andrea J. Prasow]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 07 May 2011 21:06:04 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden's Death Exposes the Price of Torture]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Bush aides are demanding credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden. They have a point-harsh interrogations do yield intelligence-but they're blind to the moral costs, says Tara McKelvey. Plus, full coverage of Osama bin Laden's death.
Torture works,...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Tara McKelvey]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why 60 Percent of Young People Support Torture]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As America continues to wage two wars in the Middle East, a striking new study shows a shift in attitudes about how to treat captured enemies. Daniel Stone reports on why the post-9/11 generation is in favor of gruesome interrogation techniques.
It's...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Daniel Stone]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Kangaroo Court for Khalid Sheik Mohammed]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Obama's egregious flip-flop on Khalid Sheik Mohammed-no civilian trial, but a military tribunal for the 9/11 planner-is a glaring example of our political cowardice. It also hands al Qaeda a victory, says Paul Campos.
'Let the jury consider...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Paul Campos]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Secret Egyptian Security Service Files Exposed]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Egyptians can now go online to view hundreds of documents detailing the horrifying activities of the State Security service. But while the agency is on the run, it could still orchestrate terrorist attacks or sectarian violence, writes Ursula...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Ursula Lindsey]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[My 36 Hours in Egyptian Captivity]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Human rights worker Daniel Williams tells of the terrifying time he spent in military detention in Cairo last week, having been arrested by Egyptian soldiers. 
Cradling an assault rifle, the soldier in the sand-colored camouflage uniform stood on a...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Daniel Williams]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 07 Feb 2011 08:28:40 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[David Kenney and Alaska's Bizarre Murder Case]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In an isolated Alaskan town, a young man is tortured and killed. Among the accused: a Kenyan refugee whose dogged pursuit of the American dream may have made him crack.
Up until a few weeks ago, the story of David Ngaruri Kenney was an uplifting saga,...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Winston Ross]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Movies That Can Kill You]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[During the premiere screening of the based-on-a-true-story film 127 Hours, three viewers fainted and one had a seizure after a graphic scene in which a trapped hiker, played by James Franco, hacks off his own arm. WATCH VIDEO of 15 movies that left...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[10 Most Shocking Secrets From the WikiLeaks Files]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The whistleblower has released its much-anticipated Iraq War logs, a massive trove of nearly 400,000 files that constitute the biggest leak of military secrets in U.S. history. From unreported cases of torture to a potential coverup involving the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[He Wanted to Kill 50 Women]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[But, according to his own account, Canada's notorious serial killer murdered only 49. Barbie Latza Nadeau on how he's escaping justice.
Canadian pig farmer Robert "Willy" Pickton admitted to killing 49 women when he finally got caught in 2002. But 49...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Barbie Latza Nadeau]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[This Week's Hot Reads]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This week: a humorous novel about the publishing world, the most intellectually satisfying thriller you'll read this summer, an Amazonian true story about a fight to save the last tribesman, the biography of the original biz-celeb and tea baron, and a...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[ The Daily Beast]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:35:44 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Headless Bodies in Endless War]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ As Mexico's drug war leaves a trail of the dead, El Nuevo Alarma! photographs the casualties in gory detail that has the tabloid flying off newsstands. Bryan Curtis on a sick paper for a sick war. 
The wretched violence in Mexico has produced at...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Bryan Curtis]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:54:15 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[24's Tortured, Torturing Hero]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Jack Bauer's TV journey ends tonight-Denise Martin argues that both he and 24 have embodied the past decade's turbulent politics. Plus, WATCH VIDEO of Jack's 10 craziest kills.
In the end, Jack Bauer is a man wrecked, snapped after eight extraordinary...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Denise Martin]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 23 May 2010 22:36:39 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Iraq: Seven Years Later]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[How has Iraq-and America-changed since the 2003 invasion? From 'Shock and Awe' to this month's parliamentary elections, VIEW OUR GALLERY of the war's defining moments.
Click Image Below to View Our Gallery of the Iraq War

For more of The Daily...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:56:55 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[What Liz Doesn't Get About Lawyers]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Former Reagan Solicitor General Charles Fried criticizes Liz Cheney's group for unfairly attacking the patriotic lawyers who have defended terrorists and corrected the abuses of the Bush administration. With Gregory Fried.
John Yoo has recently...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Charles Fried]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:52:07 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[This Week's Hot Reads]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This week: a powerful first novel about surviving revolution in Ethiopia, a historical investigation into the extraordinary human-rights champion Roger Casement, a ripping thriller set in Elizabethan England, Roger Rosenblatt's moving memoir about...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[ The Daily Beast]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:19:43 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Fate Worse Than Gitmo]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As funding struggles delay Obama's bid to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, his decision to transfer detainees to a super-max prison in Illinois will mean a fresh kind of torture for inmates.
Although the impending closure of the prison at Guantanamo...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Gerald L.  Shargel]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[America's Dark Side]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  Mark Danner's new book, Stripping Bare the Body, is damning in its assessment of American foreign policy failures in Haiti, Bosnia, and now Iraq, says Chris Lehmann.
It's all too easy to think of the unmourned Bush era as an aberration-an unsteady...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Chris Lehmann]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:17:38 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Torture's Moral Toll]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[If waterboarding works, The Daily Beast's Conor Friedersdorf wonders, why is it that the U.S. keeps triumphing over nations that torture? 
If you're the kind of person who doesn't care that the laws of the United States forbid torture, and whose moral...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Conor Friedersdorf]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[August 30: Top 8 Moments From Sunday Talk]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Two Cheneys blast the Obama administration on two networks, Maria Shriver and others remember Ted Kennedy, and John McCain talks tough on torture. That and more in our Sunday roundup.
Dick Cheney: 'Political' CIA Probe 'Offends the Hell Out of...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:58:20 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[What's Missing from the CIA Docs]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-08-25/whats-missing-from-the-cia-docs/]]></link>
            <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>
            <author><![CDATA[John Sifton]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:38:52 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Don't Dump Panetta]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  A federal prosecutor examining CIA interrogations, a special terrorism unit excluding the agency, a damaging torture report released-CIA Director Leon Panetta is under siege. Gerald Posner on why Obama shouldn't force him out.
The word spread fast...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Gerald Posner]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[America's Unhappy Spies]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Morale at the CIA is approaching 30-year lows, six insiders tell The Daily Beast's Gerald Posner, as spies perceive that Barack Obama and Director Leon Panetta are hanging them out to dry.
Morale at the CIA is the lowest it's been since the Jimmy...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Gerald Posner]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Real Story Behind the CIA's Torture Policy]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Daily Beast's Scott Horton gets the inside scoop from Jane Mayer on CIA chief Leon Panetta-and how he advocated for a truth commission on torture but was rebuffed by Obama, who saw it as a potentially dangerous political distraction.
On Monday,...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Scott  Horton]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Joe the Volcano]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[America's most mercurial, least responsible senator is up to his old tricks, threatening to shut down the Senate to block the release of the torture photos. Eric Alterman on why Obama should steer clear of Lieberman's blackmail tactics.
What to do...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Eric Alterman]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:29:51 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The CIA's Interrogation "Menu"]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The CIA may have pushed the envelope with interrogation techniques, but even it thought some techniques were too far. Except when they weren't. Robert Windrem explains how the Agency assembled its interrogation "menu." 
On July 25, 2002, in the days...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Robert Windrem]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:41:35 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Sadism at Gitmo: A Detainee Speaks]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[When Dan Rather's team interviewed former Guant&aacute;namo detainee Lakhdar Boumediene, he spoke of sexual humiliation, painful forced feeding, and medical mistreatment at the camp. But the admiral in charge at  Gitmo denied the allegations, and...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Dan Rather]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:55:38 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Bogus Torture Coverup]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-29/torture-photos-depict-sex-rape/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Update and correction: Since this story posted Friday, Salon has accurately pointed out that the sexually explicit photographs focused on in my story were first published by Salon in 2006, and that all the Salon photographs have in fact been released...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Scott  Horton]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 29 May 2009 06:43:30 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Torture Can be Wrong and Still Work]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[German authorities used beatings and threats of torture to get Magnus G&auml;fgen to confess to killing a child. Stephen Carter on why, if the goal is to obtain information, torture can work. Plus, full coverage of Osama bin Laden's death.
Unless you...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Stephen L. Carter]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 11 May 2011 22:52:01 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[May 8: 7 Best Moments From Sunday Talk]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-08/osama-bin-laden-and-pakistan-dick-cheney-and-more-sunday-talk/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Heated discussions about Pakistan's involvement with bin Laden, Cheney wants to know why we don't waterboard, Condoleezza Rice defends Tora Bora, and more in our Sunday talk round up.
Pakistani Ambassador: Trust Us!
In an interview with This Week's...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[The Daily Beast Video]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 08 May 2011 15:03:18 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Illegal Interrogations Hurt the U.S.]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Some are arguing that intel obtained from detainees under torture led us to bin Laden. But Andrea Prasow says that had we stuck to lawful tactics, we might have found him even sooner.
When I was a defense attorney in the Office of Military Commissions...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Andrea J. Prasow]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 07 May 2011 21:06:04 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden's Death Exposes the Price of Torture]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Bush aides are demanding credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden. They have a point-harsh interrogations do yield intelligence-but they're blind to the moral costs, says Tara McKelvey. Plus, full coverage of Osama bin Laden's death.
Torture works,...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Tara McKelvey]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 04 May 2011 22:37:33 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why 60 Percent of Young People Support Torture]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As America continues to wage two wars in the Middle East, a striking new study shows a shift in attitudes about how to treat captured enemies. Daniel Stone reports on why the post-9/11 generation is in favor of gruesome interrogation techniques.
It's...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Daniel Stone]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:29:47 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Kangaroo Court for Khalid Sheik Mohammed]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Obama's egregious flip-flop on Khalid Sheik Mohammed-no civilian trial, but a military tribunal for the 9/11 planner-is a glaring example of our political cowardice. It also hands al Qaeda a victory, says Paul Campos.
'Let the jury consider...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Paul Campos]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 05 Apr 2011 02:14:38 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Secret Egyptian Security Service Files Exposed]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Egyptians can now go online to view hundreds of documents detailing the horrifying activities of the State Security service. But while the agency is on the run, it could still orchestrate terrorist attacks or sectarian violence, writes Ursula...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Ursula Lindsey]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 07 Mar 2011 22:37:59 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[My 36 Hours in Egyptian Captivity]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Human rights worker Daniel Williams tells of the terrifying time he spent in military detention in Cairo last week, having been arrested by Egyptian soldiers. 
Cradling an assault rifle, the soldier in the sand-colored camouflage uniform stood on a...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Daniel Williams]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 07 Feb 2011 08:28:40 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[David Kenney and Alaska's Bizarre Murder Case]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-11-10/david-kenney-and-alaskas-bizarre-murder-case/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[In an isolated Alaskan town, a young man is tortured and killed. Among the accused: a Kenyan refugee whose dogged pursuit of the American dream may have made him crack.
Up until a few weeks ago, the story of David Ngaruri Kenney was an uplifting saga,...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Winston Ross]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:39:44 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Movies That Can Kill You]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-11-08/127-hours-audience-fainting-and-more-dangerous-movies/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[During the premiere screening of the based-on-a-true-story film 127 Hours, three viewers fainted and one had a seizure after a graphic scene in which a trapped hiker, played by James Franco, hacks off his own arm. WATCH VIDEO of 15 movies that left...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[The Daily Beast Video]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:56:36 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[10 Most Shocking Secrets From the WikiLeaks Files]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-10-22/wikileaks-iraq-war-files-8-most-shocking-secrets/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The whistleblower has released its much-anticipated Iraq War logs, a massive trove of nearly 400,000 files that constitute the biggest leak of military secrets in U.S. history. From unreported cases of torture to a potential coverup involving the...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[ The Daily Beast]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 22 Oct 2010 21:37:07 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[He Wanted to Kill 50 Women]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-08-18/willy-pickton-murder-trial-judge-closes-20-cases/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[But, according to his own account, Canada's notorious serial killer murdered only 49. Barbie Latza Nadeau on how he's escaping justice.
Canadian pig farmer Robert "Willy" Pickton admitted to killing 49 women when he finally got caught in 2002. But 49...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Barbie Latza Nadeau]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:41:48 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[This Week's Hot Reads]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-07-21/this-weeks-hot-reads-35/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[This week: a humorous novel about the publishing world, the most intellectually satisfying thriller you'll read this summer, an Amazonian true story about a fight to save the last tribesman, the biography of the original biz-celeb and tea baron, and a...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[ The Daily Beast]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:35:44 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Headless Bodies in Endless War]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-06-08/mexicos-drug-war-tabloid-el-nuevo-alarma/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[ As Mexico's drug war leaves a trail of the dead, El Nuevo Alarma! photographs the casualties in gory detail that has the tabloid flying off newsstands. Bryan Curtis on a sick paper for a sick war. 
The wretched violence in Mexico has produced at...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Bryan Curtis]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:54:15 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[24's Tortured, Torturing Hero]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-05-23/24s-tortured-torturing-hero/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Jack Bauer's TV journey ends tonight-Denise Martin argues that both he and 24 have embodied the past decade's turbulent politics. Plus, WATCH VIDEO of Jack's 10 craziest kills.
In the end, Jack Bauer is a man wrecked, snapped after eight extraordinary...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Denise Martin]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 23 May 2010 22:36:39 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Iraq: Seven Years Later]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-03-20/seven-years-on/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[How has Iraq-and America-changed since the 2003 invasion? From 'Shock and Awe' to this month's parliamentary elections, VIEW OUR GALLERY of the war's defining moments.
Click Image Below to View Our Gallery of the Iraq War

For more of The Daily...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[ The Daily Beast]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:56:55 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[What Liz Doesn't Get About Lawyers]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-03-13/why-liz-cheney-is-wrong/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Former Reagan Solicitor General Charles Fried criticizes Liz Cheney's group for unfairly attacking the patriotic lawyers who have defended terrorists and corrected the abuses of the Bush administration. With Gregory Fried.
John Yoo has recently...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Charles Fried]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:52:07 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[This Week's Hot Reads]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-02-25/this-weeks-hot-reads-23/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[This week: a powerful first novel about surviving revolution in Ethiopia, a historical investigation into the extraordinary human-rights champion Roger Casement, a ripping thriller set in Elizabethan England, Roger Rosenblatt's moving memoir about...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[ The Daily Beast]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:19:43 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Fate Worse Than Gitmo]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-22/a-fate-worse-than-gitmo/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[As funding struggles delay Obama's bid to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, his decision to transfer detainees to a super-max prison in Illinois will mean a fresh kind of torture for inmates.
Although the impending closure of the prison at Guantanamo...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Gerald L.  Shargel]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:39:05 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[America's Dark Side]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-10-25/americas-dark-side/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[  Mark Danner's new book, Stripping Bare the Body, is damning in its assessment of American foreign policy failures in Haiti, Bosnia, and now Iraq, says Chris Lehmann.
It's all too easy to think of the unmourned Bush era as an aberration-an unsteady...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Chris Lehmann]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:17:38 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Torture's Moral Toll]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-09-01/tortures-moral-toll/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[If waterboarding works, The Daily Beast's Conor Friedersdorf wonders, why is it that the U.S. keeps triumphing over nations that torture? 
If you're the kind of person who doesn't care that the laws of the United States forbid torture, and whose moral...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Conor Friedersdorf]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:03:10 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[August 30: Top 8 Moments From Sunday Talk]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Two Cheneys blast the Obama administration on two networks, Maria Shriver and others remember Ted Kennedy, and John McCain talks tough on torture. That and more in our Sunday roundup.
Dick Cheney: 'Political' CIA Probe 'Offends the Hell Out of...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[The Daily Beast Video]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:58:20 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[What's Missing from the CIA Docs]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-08-25/whats-missing-from-the-cia-docs/]]></link>
            <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>
            <author><![CDATA[John Sifton]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:38:52 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Don't Dump Panetta]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-08-24/dont-dump-panetta/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[  A federal prosecutor examining CIA interrogations, a special terrorism unit excluding the agency, a damaging torture report released-CIA Director Leon Panetta is under siege. Gerald Posner on why Obama shouldn't force him out.
The word spread fast...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Morale at the CIA is approaching 30-year lows, six insiders tell The Daily Beast's Gerald Posner, as spies perceive that Barack Obama and Director Leon Panetta are hanging them out to dry.
Morale at the CIA is the lowest it's been since the Jimmy...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Gerald Posner]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Real Story Behind the CIA's Torture Policy]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Daily Beast's Scott Horton gets the inside scoop from Jane Mayer on CIA chief Leon Panetta-and how he advocated for a truth commission on torture but was rebuffed by Obama, who saw it as a potentially dangerous political distraction.
On Monday,...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Scott  Horton]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:51:51 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Joe the Volcano]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[America's most mercurial, least responsible senator is up to his old tricks, threatening to shut down the Senate to block the release of the torture photos. Eric Alterman on why Obama should steer clear of Lieberman's blackmail tactics.
What to do...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Eric Alterman]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:29:51 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The CIA's Interrogation "Menu"]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The CIA may have pushed the envelope with interrogation techniques, but even it thought some techniques were too far. Except when they weren't. Robert Windrem explains how the Agency assembled its interrogation "menu." 
On July 25, 2002, in the days...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Robert Windrem]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:41:35 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Sadism at Gitmo: A Detainee Speaks]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[When Dan Rather's team interviewed former Guant&aacute;namo detainee Lakhdar Boumediene, he spoke of sexual humiliation, painful forced feeding, and medical mistreatment at the camp. But the admiral in charge at  Gitmo denied the allegations, and...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Dan Rather]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:55:38 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Bogus Torture Coverup]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Update and correction: Since this story posted Friday, Salon has accurately pointed out that the sexually explicit photographs focused on in my story were first published by Salon in 2006, and that all the Salon photographs have in fact been released...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Scott  Horton]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 29 May 2009 06:43:30 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Marc Thiessen Takes on Stewart]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[It got heated between Marc Thiessen and Jon Stewart on Tuesday's Daily Show. Going up against an impassioned Stewart, the former Bush speechwriter claimed that he was "filibustered," despite an opportunity to continue the interview for a special...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:23 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[O'Donnell Blasts Thiessen]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Maybe Lawrence O'Donnell should switch to decaf, too? Former Bush aide Marc Thiessen couldn't get a word in edgewise as the MSNBC correspondent accused him of "inviting" the 9/11 attacks. Thiessen, of course, is no stranger to exaggerated invective-he...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:34:25 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Amanpour Confronts Pro-Waterboarding Author]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The conversation was combative but (unlike certain other cable shows) elevated on CNN last night as Christiane Amanpour took on former George W. Bush speech writer Marc Theissan over waterboarding. Also contributing was Philippe Sands, of University...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:45:49 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gibbs Fires Back at Cheney]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Robert Gibbs responds to Dick Cheney's most recent comments on torture by saying Cheney's facts are "wrong." Your move, Mr. Cheney. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:52:55 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Torture Kept Us Safe? No Way]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[John McCain, in a fiery appearnce on Face the Nation, tells Bob Shieffer that enhanced interrogations not only violated the Geneva Conventions, but has helped Al Qaeda recruitment.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:47:03 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Liz Cheney Battles Sam Donaldson]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Dick wasn't the only Cheney who came out swinging on Sunday's talk shows. Here Liz gets into it with Sam Donaldson on This Week, defending her father and criticizing the investigation into enhanced interrogation tactics by the CIA. ABC News]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:24:47 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Talk Radio Host Gets Waterboarded]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[He's no Christopher Hitchens, but shock jock Erich 'Mancow' Muller became the latest semi-celeb Friday to undergo waterboarding... and say it's torture.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 24 May 2009 14:49:12 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Robert Gates: Gitmo Is Tainted]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Defense secretary tells Matt Lauer that fear mongering has obscured the fact that supermax prisons already hold terrorists.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 22 May 2009 12:48:19 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Pelosi's Done Talking]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[She's the Speaker of the House but as far as her allegations against the CIA, Nancy Pelosi has nothing more to say. Is that a choice? Source: Fox News]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 22 May 2009 11:16:54 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Liz Cheney's Morning Debate]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The suddenly ubiquitous Cheney takes on Lawrence O'Donnell on GMA for a debate on torture. We love the sound of partisan conflict in the morning.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 22 May 2009 09:28:20 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama: Our Values Keep Us Safe]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Obama, who's facing obstacles from both the Democrats and the GOP for closing Gitmo, made the case today for his administration's policy on handling terror suspects.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 21 May 2009 12:45:16 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Philosophical Cage Match]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/elisabeth-v-jesse-ventura-on-torture-/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Former wrestler/governor Jesse Ventura and Elisabeth Hasselbeck battle over water boarding, which Ventura was subjected to when he was in the military. The View ]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 18 May 2009 14:19:59 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Calling Out the Administration ]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/video/item/the-daily-show-calls-obama-out/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[It was bound to happen. Jon Stewart calls out the Obama administration on its position regarding torture photos and don't ask, don't tell.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 15 May 2009 10:58:31 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Kit Bond on Intelligence ]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sen. Bond tells Matt Lauer that if Congress dislikes what they hear from the CIA, there are avenues to address it -
and Nancy Pelosi took none of them.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 15 May 2009 08:01:09 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[CIA Deceived Pelosi?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Rep. Pelosi addresses the recently-released CIA torture memos, saying that the briefings she received while under the Bush administration were "inaccurate and incomplete." Source: CNN]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 14 May 2009 17:31:56 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[When Is Waterboarding Ethical?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Cliff May and Jon Stewart go back and forth in one of the smarter (and yes, funnier) debates we've seen on waterboarding. Clip above; full episode here.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:57:54 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Biden: No Apologies from Obama]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Dick Cheney may think President Obama has been offering too many friendly handshakes and apologies to the world, but Joe Biden has a few strong words about that. 60 Minutes.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bush to be Prosecuted?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Pat Buchanan tells the McLaughlin Group that the investigation of Bush-era torture policies could lead to the prosecution of "the decider himself, George W. Bush."]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[McCain: Don't Prosecute]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On Fox & Friends Friday, John McCain said we did not need to see the torture memos and that their release was setting a terrible precedent.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lesley Stahl Perplexed by O'Reilly]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Stahl tells Bill O'Reilly she's confused by the issue of torture. Luckily Bill O'Reilly can clear it all up for her. Now, Lesley seems confused only by Bill.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:06:53 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Liz Cheney Defends Dad]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Liz Cheney, appearing on MSNBC, argues that Bush-era interrogation tactics were not torture, and that releasing information about them will only benefit our enemies.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Shep Smith: Uncensored ]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Shep Smith loses his cool and control of his mouth discussing torture live on Fox News. But give some credit: do you think Olbermann or Matthews would ever disagree so passionately with the left?]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[MoveOn.org Targets Cheney]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Why haven't high-level Bush officials been investigated for prisoner abuse? That's what liberal political group MoveOn.org is asking in this ad, which it just sent its 5 million members. ]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:58:20 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hillary Zings Cheney]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[At a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs committee, Hillary Clinton offers a few choice words about Dick Cheney. Clip above; more at ABC News.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:09:18 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cheney: Obama Misleading on Interrogation]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Appearing on Hannity, Dick Cheney says President Obama failed to release CIA memos that show the success of the Bush-era interrogation program. Clip above; full video here.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:32:32 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Has Obama Damaged the CIA?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On Fox News Sunday, former head of the CIA General Michael Hayden speculated that Obama's release of Bush-era torture memos will politicize the agency.]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:23:58 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gibbs Compares Briefing to Torture]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[After being thoroughly grilled on AIG bonuses at Tuesday's press briefing, Robert Gibbs describes his treatment from the press corps as 'torture.' Source: CNN]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Has Waterboarding Kept Us Safe?]]></title>
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