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How Waterboarding Saved Los Angeles
Waterboarding KSM Saved Los Angeles, CIA Says
Less than a week after declaring that it was time for the nation to move on rather than “laying blame for the past,” Obama described what might be done next to investigate what he called the loss of “our moral bearings.”
Answering a reporter’s question, Obama said that it would be up to his attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., to determine whether “those who formulated those legal decisions” behind the interrogation methods should be prosecuted.
The methods, described in Bush-era memos Obama released last Thursday, included such grim and demeaning tactics as slamming detainees against walls and subjecting them to water-boarding, which is simulated drowning. The harsher methods were authorized to gain information after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Obama said CIA operatives who did the interrogating should not be charged with crimes because they thought they were following the law as interpreted by Bush administration. Read the rest of this entry »
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