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< BACK TO Fresh Intelligence McCain: Waterboarding's New Kahuna
Seems the Army Field Manual, that occasional military bible, is a bit harder to read than first imagined. Of the 19, oh, let's call 'em torture techniques, permitted by the Manual, waterboarding is not included. So says Steven G. Bradbury, acting head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel. Yeah, that's the same Bradbury who, in 2005, under cover of night, signed the documents that legalized the practice in the first place. Now: "The set of interrogation methods authorized for current use is narrower than before, and it does not today include waterboarding." Handy! For someone looking to be confirmed at his current post, anyway. But Back to McCain, who in October 2007 said that waterboarding "is not a complicated procedure. It is torture." Is it more complicated now, or is he still reeling from being carpetbombed at CPAC by the very factions he needs to win over to pull out a victory? Or has the torture that is the campaign trail put these things in perspective for him? We'll give him the former, but are not entirely ruling out the latter. Advertisement |
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