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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[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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            <title><![CDATA[WH Wants Yoo Suit Dropped]]></title>
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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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            <title><![CDATA[U.S. Still Operating Secret Afghan Prison]]></title>
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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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            <title><![CDATA[Afghans Allege U.S. Abuse]]></title>
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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[More Bush Torture Memos?]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Musicians Ask for Gitmo's Playlist]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Do music copyrights cover use during enhanced interrogation? Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine are upset that the government purportedly blasted their music in Guantanamo for hours to "create futility" in...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[CIA Abuse Probe Narrows]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Ex-CIA chiefs are lining up to criticize the Justice Department's probe into the agency's treatment of terror detainees, but the investigation may end up being a relatively small one. According to The Washington Post, the probe is set to look at only a...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Shoe-Thrower: I Was Tortured]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Muntader al-Zaidi, the Iraqi man who hurled a shoe at then-President George W. Bush last year, has been released from prison after nine months of detention, during which he says he was tortured. Al-Zaidi became a hero to many Muslims and Arabs around...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bush Tried to Relax Detainee Treaty]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Not surprising, but shocking still: The Bush administration tried to soften the language on a treaty that punished "enforced disappearances" between 2003 and 2006, so that officers at the CIA's secret prisons would not be prosecuted, The Washington...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Court Upholds Ashcroft Suit]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A federal appeals court in California has roundly rejected a bid for absolute legal immunity for former Attorney General John Ashcroft, which will allow a Muslim man to sue Ashcroft for his detention in 2003. Abdullah al-Kidd, a U.S. citizen who was...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Did CIA Docs Experiment on Prisoners?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[What would Hippocrates say about torture? Doctors and psychologists who monitored the CIA's alleged "enhanced interrogation" techniques may have come close to or committed illegal human experimentation, according to a report by nonprofit Physicians for...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Chris Wallace Goes Easy On Cheney]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[There's nothing more sarcastic than journalist-on-journalist criticism. The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan excoriated Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace for behaving like "a teenage girl interviewing the Jonas Brothers" during his...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Did Waterboarding Work?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A recently released report from 2004 by the CIA's then-inspector general offered no conclusion as to whether waterboarding and other torture methods were effective in securing valuable information from detainees, but intelligence officials are trying...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama Taps Bush CIA Official]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Out with the old, in with the... old? President Barack Obama may say he's against the Bush administration's interrogation policies, but he's just tapped a key Bush-era CIA insider, John Brennan, to oversee his new interrogation policies. Brennan, who...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Meet Holder's Independent Prosecutor]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The man appointed by Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate allegations of detainee abuse by the CIA is a career prosecutor known for his intense dedication to the law and unflappable moral compass. John Durham is already involved in the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[CIA Releases Cheney Docs]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, former vice president Dick Cheney had requested that the CIA release documents that he said would prove that "enhanced interrogation techniques" worked. His request was, at first, denied, but now ABC News reports the documents have...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Interrogator Threatened to Kill Children]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Here's something for the new torture prosecutor to look into: The Associated Press is reporting that, according to the CIA report declassified on Monday, interrogators threatened to harm the families of the suspects they interrogated. One interrogator...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Holder to Appoint Torture Prosecutor]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The big news of the day: Attorney General Eric Holder will appoint a special prosecutor to investigate nearly a dozen cases in which CIA interrogators and contractors may have violated torture laws. Holder will appoint John Durham, a veteran Justice...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Justice Dept. Advises Torture Probes]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The skeletons in the Bush administration's closets just won't die: The Justice Department's ethics office has recommended reopening nearly a dozen prisoner-abuse cases in a move that could potentially expose CIA employees to criminal prosecution....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Abu Ghraib Soldier Speech Canceled]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Lynndie England, the woman who became the face of the Abu Ghraib torture scandal, was set to give a speech at the Library of Congress on Friday before staff had to cancel the event due to safety concerns, the Associated Press reports. The event's...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Torture Architects' First Victim]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Jim Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, the two psychologists who penned the military's harsh interrogation tactics, receive profile treatment in Wednesday's New York Times. Best part? In March 2002, Mitchell arrived in person at a jail in Thailand to oversee...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Holder Investigation Moves On]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[It's not over yet: Attorney General Eric Holder may soon appoint a criminal prosecutor to investigate the alleged CIA abuses during the interrogation of terrorism suspects. According to a senior Justice Department official, Holder is seeking an inquiry...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Torture Reports Delayed]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Guess this wasn't as easy as the administration thought: A Justice Department task force had to request an extension on its deadline to file a report examining U.S. interrogation and detention policy, citing the extraordinarily complex issues involved....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Will White House Investigate Bush?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A few months ago, Senator Patrick Leahy said that he wanted to read the page on the Bush administration's torture of terror detainees before turning it. It appears that Leahy will get his wish: "After trying for months to shake off the legacy of their...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Attorney General Mulls Torture Probe]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Obama administration may not be so quick to "turn the page," after all: Newsweek reports that Attorney General Eric Holder "is now leaning toward appointing a prosecutor to investigate the Bush administration's brutal interrogation practices,...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[CIA Admits Lying]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Be grateful half this cheat isn't redacted. According to The Wall Street Journal, seven Democratic lawmakers said in a letter released Thursday that CIA director Leon Panetta had admitted to them that the agency had "concealed significant actions" from...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:52:00 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Another Gitmo Detainee Freed]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A federal judge vigorously ordered the release of Guant&aacute;namo detainee Abd al Rahim Abdul Rassak on Monday. According to the Associated Press, the Syrian Rassak ended up at Gitmo after a Kafka-esque series of mishaps: in 2000 Rassak spent a few...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Seven Years On]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Since the 2003 invasion, America feels nearly as changed as Iraq. From 'Shock and Awe' to this month's parliamentary elections, VIEW OUR GALLERY of the moments that have defined the war.
Click Image Below to View Our Gallery of the Iraq War

For...]]></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>
            <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>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-08-30/aug-30-top-8-moments-from-sunday-talk/]]></link>
            <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>
            <author><![CDATA[Gerald Posner]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:19:30 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[America's Unhappy Spies]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-22/americas-unhappy-spies/]]></link>
            <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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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:49:33 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Real Story Behind the CIA's Torture Policy]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-06-15/panetta-torn-between-past-and-present/]]></link>
            <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>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-06-09/joe-the-volcano/]]></link>
            <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>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-06-08/the-cias-interrogation-menu/]]></link>
            <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>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-06-08/the-sadism-at-gitmo-a-detainee-speaks/]]></link>
            <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[Obama's Hypocrisy on Murder]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-26/the-terrorist-next-door/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[If he really wants to lock up dangerous criminals, he should forget detaining terror suspects-and go after the hundreds of thousands of known murderers roaming America's streets.
President Obama wants to make it legal to "detain indefinitely," in the...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Paul Campos]]></author>
       <source url="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogsandstories/"><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogsandstories/]]></source>
            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 26 May 2009 05:43:59 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Jesse the Body vs. Torture]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-22/jesse-the-body-vs-torture/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[As Obama and Cheney clashed over fighting terror, a new voice has entered the fray: Jesse Ventura, who has declared war on torture. He talked to The Daily Beast about taking on opponents from both parties.
As the national debate over torture reached...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Benjamin  Sarlin]]></author>
       <source url="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogsandstories/"><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogsandstories/]]></source>
            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 22 May 2009 05:49:37 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama vs. Cheney]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-21/obama-vs-cheney/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Barack Obama squared off against his new archnemesis, Dick Cheney, with dueling speeches on national security Thursday. The speeches read like point-by-point rebuttals of one another. The Daily Beast scores the fight.
In the greatest political title...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Benjamin  Sarlin]]></author>
       <source url="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogsandstories/"><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogsandstories/]]></source>
            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 21 May 2009 12:46:55 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cheney's Big Torture Speech]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-20/cheneys-big-torture-speech/]]></link>
            <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>
            <author><![CDATA[John Sifton]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 20 May 2009 23:30:43 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cheney, the Sequel]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-19/new-cheney-in-town/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Liz Cheney is just as outspoken as her dad. The Daily Beast presents her 7 most outrageous made-for-TV moments.
PHASE ONE: STANDS UP TO 'DARTH VADER' JIBE
September 25, 2007: Appearing on MSNBC, Cheney is forced to watch Hillary Clinton liken her...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[The Daily Beast Video]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 19 May 2009 06:48:26 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Turning Point in the Torture Debate]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-14/bushies-break-ranks-on-torture/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[ As Speaker Pelosi accuses the CIA of lying to her about waterboarding, The Daily Beast's Scott Horton asks if the tide is turning in the debate.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) opened a hearing on the Bush administration's torture policy quoting...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Scott  Horton]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 14 May 2009 06:39:52 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cheney's Role Deepens]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-13/cheneys-role-deepens/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Former NBC News investigative producer Robert Windrem reports that the vice president's office suggested waterboarding an Iraqi prisoner who was suspected of knowing about a relationship between al Qaeda and Saddam.
Robert Windrem, who covered...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Robert Windrem]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 13 May 2009 18:31:15 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Torture Helped Win WWII]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-13/how-torture-helped-win-wwii/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Fretting over waterboarding, writes British historian Andrew Roberts, obscures the fact that "enhanced interrogation techniques" have saved thousands of lives in every war. Plus, read Michael Korda's review of Roberts' book Masters and Commanders: How...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Andrew Roberts]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 13 May 2009 12:37:07 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Justice Department Probe Slams Bush Lawyers Over Torture Ethics]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-06/justice-department-probe-slams-bush-lawyers-over-torture-ethics/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[A new Justice Department report about Bush lawyers who legitimized torture techniques is "devastating," a source tells The Daily Beast's Scott Horton, and contrary to The New York Times, criminal charges aren't off the table-Attorney General Eric...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Scott  Horton]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 06 May 2009 11:41:25 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bush's Lawyers Strike Back]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-03/bushs-lawyers-strike-back/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[In a brutally frank and at times contentious interview, former Attorneys General John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales sat down with Dan Abrams to talk about:
-their definition of torture ("Were the interrogations harsh? Yes. Did they save lives?...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Dan  Abrams]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 03 May 2009 23:28:44 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Prosecution of Bush Six Back On]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-04-29/prosecution-of-bush-six-back-on/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Daily Beast's Scott Horton reports that a judge in Spain decided today that an investigation of Bush officials involved in torture policy will go forward and can lead to prosecution.
In a ruling in Madrid today, Judge Baltasar Garz&oacute;n has...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Scott  Horton]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:39:49 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Crimes of Guant&aacute;namo]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Karen Greenberg, author of a provocative new book on the abuses at Guant&aacute;namo, talks about how Bush attorneys ignored the Geneva Conventions-and why Obama shouldn't prosecute them.
On May 23, the Pentagon will release photographs of alleged...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Tara McKelvey]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:43:10 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Busting the Torture Myths]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-04-27/myth-and-reality-about-torture/]]></link>
            <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.
- A torture memo writer refused to comply with a warning about criminal risks-and exposes...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Scott  Horton]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:13:55 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[7 Best Moments From Sunday Talk]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Pat Buchanan says Bush may be prosecuted, Ahmadinejad supports a two-state solution, and Larry Summers discusses his sleep issues. Watch the best moments from Sunday's talk shows.
Buchanan: Bush Prosecuted for War Crimes?
Is he having Watergate...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[The Daily Beast Video]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:33:15 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Obama Is in Denial]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-04-26/why-obama-is-in-denial/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[ The president is doing the American psyche a great disservice by refusing to aggressively push for the prosecution of those who engineered the Bush torture policy. Justin Frank, author of Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President, says...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Justin Frank]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 26 Apr 2009 06:21:03 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Seven Years On]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Since the 2003 invasion, America feels nearly as changed as Iraq. From 'Shock and Awe' to this month's parliamentary elections, VIEW OUR GALLERY of the moments that have defined the war.
Click Image Below to View Our Gallery of the Iraq War

For...]]></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>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-08-30/aug-30-top-8-moments-from-sunday-talk/]]></link>
            <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>
            <author><![CDATA[Gerald Posner]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:19:30 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[America's Unhappy Spies]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-22/americas-unhappy-spies/]]></link>
            <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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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:49:33 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Real Story Behind the CIA's Torture Policy]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-06-15/panetta-torn-between-past-and-present/]]></link>
            <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>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-06-09/joe-the-volcano/]]></link>
            <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>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-06-08/the-cias-interrogation-menu/]]></link>
            <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>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-06-08/the-sadism-at-gitmo-a-detainee-speaks/]]></link>
            <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[Obama's Hypocrisy on Murder]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-26/the-terrorist-next-door/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[If he really wants to lock up dangerous criminals, he should forget detaining terror suspects-and go after the hundreds of thousands of known murderers roaming America's streets.
President Obama wants to make it legal to "detain indefinitely," in the...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Paul Campos]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 26 May 2009 05:43:59 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Jesse the Body vs. Torture]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-22/jesse-the-body-vs-torture/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[As Obama and Cheney clashed over fighting terror, a new voice has entered the fray: Jesse Ventura, who has declared war on torture. He talked to The Daily Beast about taking on opponents from both parties.
As the national debate over torture reached...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Benjamin  Sarlin]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 22 May 2009 05:49:37 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama vs. Cheney]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-21/obama-vs-cheney/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Barack Obama squared off against his new archnemesis, Dick Cheney, with dueling speeches on national security Thursday. The speeches read like point-by-point rebuttals of one another. The Daily Beast scores the fight.
In the greatest political title...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Benjamin  Sarlin]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 21 May 2009 12:46:55 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cheney's Big Torture Speech]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-20/cheneys-big-torture-speech/]]></link>
            <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>
            <author><![CDATA[John Sifton]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 20 May 2009 23:30:43 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cheney, the Sequel]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-19/new-cheney-in-town/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Liz Cheney is just as outspoken as her dad. The Daily Beast presents her 7 most outrageous made-for-TV moments.
PHASE ONE: STANDS UP TO 'DARTH VADER' JIBE
September 25, 2007: Appearing on MSNBC, Cheney is forced to watch Hillary Clinton liken her...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[The Daily Beast Video]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 19 May 2009 06:48:26 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Turning Point in the Torture Debate]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-14/bushies-break-ranks-on-torture/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[ As Speaker Pelosi accuses the CIA of lying to her about waterboarding, The Daily Beast's Scott Horton asks if the tide is turning in the debate.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) opened a hearing on the Bush administration's torture policy quoting...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Scott  Horton]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 14 May 2009 06:39:52 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cheney's Role Deepens]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-13/cheneys-role-deepens/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Former NBC News investigative producer Robert Windrem reports that the vice president's office suggested waterboarding an Iraqi prisoner who was suspected of knowing about a relationship between al Qaeda and Saddam.
Robert Windrem, who covered...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Robert Windrem]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 13 May 2009 18:31:15 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Torture Helped Win WWII]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-13/how-torture-helped-win-wwii/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Fretting over waterboarding, writes British historian Andrew Roberts, obscures the fact that "enhanced interrogation techniques" have saved thousands of lives in every war. Plus, read Michael Korda's review of Roberts' book Masters and Commanders: How...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Andrew Roberts]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 13 May 2009 12:37:07 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Justice Department Probe Slams Bush Lawyers Over Torture Ethics]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-06/justice-department-probe-slams-bush-lawyers-over-torture-ethics/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[A new Justice Department report about Bush lawyers who legitimized torture techniques is "devastating," a source tells The Daily Beast's Scott Horton, and contrary to The New York Times, criminal charges aren't off the table-Attorney General Eric...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Scott  Horton]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 06 May 2009 11:41:25 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bush's Lawyers Strike Back]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-03/bushs-lawyers-strike-back/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[In a brutally frank and at times contentious interview, former Attorneys General John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales sat down with Dan Abrams to talk about:
-their definition of torture ("Were the interrogations harsh? Yes. Did they save lives?...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Dan  Abrams]]></author>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 03 May 2009 23:28:44 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Daily Beast's Scott Horton reports that a judge in Spain decided today that an investigation of Bush officials involved in torture policy will go forward and can lead to prosecution.
In a ruling in Madrid today, Judge Baltasar Garz&oacute;n has...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Crimes of Guant&aacute;namo]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Karen Greenberg, author of a provocative new book on the abuses at Guant&aacute;namo, talks about how Bush attorneys ignored the Geneva Conventions-and why Obama shouldn't prosecute them.
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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.
- A torture memo writer refused to comply with a warning about criminal risks-and exposes...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Pat Buchanan says Bush may be prosecuted, Ahmadinejad supports a two-state solution, and Larry Summers discusses his sleep issues. Watch the best moments from Sunday's talk shows.
Buchanan: Bush Prosecuted for War Crimes?
Is he having Watergate...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Obama Is in Denial]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The president is doing the American psyche a great disservice by refusing to aggressively push for the prosecution of those who engineered the Bush torture policy. Justin Frank, author of Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President, says...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Justin Frank]]></author>
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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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            <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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            <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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            <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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            <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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            <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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            <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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            <title><![CDATA[Calling Out the Administration ]]></title>
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            <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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            <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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            <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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            <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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            <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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            <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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            <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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            <description><![CDATA[From Sunday's 'McLaughlin Group': Monica Crowley argues waterboarding has kept us safe, and Buchanan says the country will clamor for it if we're attacked again.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Holder: Waterboarding is Torture]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Vice President Cheney may call it 'enhanced interrogation,' but Eric Holder, speaking at today's confirmation hearing, says waterboarding is torture.]]></description>
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