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And memos also can reflect nothing more than attacks on those who follow policies the memo-writer dislikes. Or simply be wrong. Typical leftist to reject the statements of all those public figures and accuse them of lying....

How freaking absurd. There wasn't even any public discussion about it, so how can you say there was no dispute? What an obvious lie....

Yes. I reject the claims of people who are now trying to cover their own asses. I prefer to believe what the CIA's own internal documents showed. What they said publicly did not match up with what they wrote privately....

So you reject the claims of multiple CIA Directors and assistant directors, including Obama's if I recall, and key CIA operatives. But gosh, if you can't take the word of a lying troll like you, whose can we take?...

WTF do you know about reality? There was never any dispute over whether or not Waterboarding is torture until those two hacks at the Office of Legal Counsel wrote those ridiculous memos saying that it wasn't. The rules weren't bent. The law was broken. ****....

Not that reality ever gets in the way of your talking points, there is still great dispute about whether waterboarding is torture, including by those who have undergone it. The rules were arguably bent on behalf of the country's defense at a time of great peril, saving thousands of lives. Lying tr...

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The fact remains the issue of torture was considered. Reasonable efforts were made to stay on the right side of the issue and stop short of torture. Using outliers like people unintenrionally dying from exposure do not make this program torture, it indicates there were some unfortunate occurances wh...

Those torture memos written by Jay Bybee and John Yoo, have been widely discredited. Just because those two clowns said that torture was legal, doesn't make it so....

The CIA's own internal documents which were the basis of the Senate report said otherwise. And CIA director John Brennan said it was “unknowable” if the agency’s enhanced-interrogation techniques torture provided any crucial intelligence. UNKNOWABLE: not able to be known I guess you think that you...