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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-16-06 07:59 AM
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"Bush ...is misusing claims of national security to avoid public scrutiny,"
We have know this since 9/11.
If we had a media that did its job at least their MIGHT be some checks!


......."The CIA’s sudden reversal on these secret directives is yet more evidence that the Bush administration is misusing claims of national security to avoid public scrutiny," ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero stated in the press release. "Confusion about whether such a presidential order existed certainly led to the torture and abuse scandal that embarrassed America."


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> CIA acknowledges existence of presidential order authorizing it to detain, interrogate terror suspects overseas
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> RAW STORY
> Published: Tuesday November 14, 2006
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> In response to an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit, the CIA has finally acknowledged the existence of a presidential order authorizing the agency to detain and interrogate terror suspects overseas.
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> "For more than two years, the CIA had refused to either deny or confirm the existence of the documents and had argued in court that doing so could jeopardize national security," the ACLU notes in a press release received by RAW STORY.
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> Along with a memorandum written by President Bush to the agency's director, the CIA also referred to a Justice Department legal analysis sent to the CIA's general counsel which specified interrogation methods which could be used against top Al-Qaeda members........
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wake.up.america Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-16-06 08:10 AM
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1. Sooner or later every evil doer has his day. Bush will be revealed!
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acmejack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-16-06 08:18 AM
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2. Let us hope the time has finally come!
Calling Congressman Henry Waxman, Congressman Waxman...
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