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Sat 04 Apr 2009Inside the US torture machine
Four disturbing memos published by US President Barack Obama show just how far the CIA was prepared to go in justifying the techniques used to interrogate prisoners, writes PETER MURTAGH
MEMOS PURPORTING to give the US Central Intelligence Agency legal cover for assaulting and humiliating al-Qaeda detainees in custody and which have been published by US President Barack Obama make for exceptionally disturbing reading.
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