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CIA Torture Memo: Harsh Interrogation Legal If It's In "Good Faith"
                   
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Jul 25, 2008 131 related
        

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department in 2002 told the CIA that its interrogators would be safe from prosecution for violations of anti-torture laws if they believed "in good faith" that harsh techniques used to break prisoners' will would not cause "prolonged mental harm." That heavily censored memo, released Thursday, approved the CIA's harsh interrogation techniques method by method, but warned that if the circumstances changed, interrogators could be running afoul of anti-torture laws. The Aug. 1, 2002, legal opinion signed by then-Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee was issued the same day he wrote a memo for then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales defining torture as only those "extreme acts" that cause pain similar in intensity to that caused by death or organ failure. The Bybee legal opinion defining torture was... [read full story]                    

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U-M and its 109th-ranked offense have tough challenges ahead

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BY MARK SNYDER • FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITER • October 13, 2008 Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez said Saturday, after U-M's crushing 13-10 loss to Toledo, that he had been there before. Assistant coach Fred Jackson, on the other...

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India:Inflation Index in textiles sector declines by 2.2%

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The W.P.I. Index based rate of inflation for the week ending 27.09.2008 has been provisionally estimated at 11.80% as against the previous week’s level of 11.99%. The textiles group has an overall weight of 9.8% in the WPI...

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Lehman's Loss: More Than $200 Billion (at Seeking Alpha)

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“Smoothly? At this point, we can conclude that letting Lehman fail when it did (by which I mean letting it slide into bankruptcy instead of an assisted fire sale, à la Bear, or a nationalization, à la AIG ) was in all...

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ADC Showcases IP-RAN Solutions at PCIA Show (Business Wire)

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MINNEAPOLIS----ADC today announced that it will display key products from its IP-RAN solutions portfolio at the PCIA Wireless Infrastructure Show, October 13-14 at the Westin Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood, Florida, Booth 301.

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