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Hulk

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2. Just read The Black Banners...
Fri Jan 4, 2013, 04:57 AM
Jan 2013
The Black Banners by Ali H. Soufan pretty much tells it all. The "enhanced interrogation", otherwise known to rational man as "torture", actually set us back in gathering intelligence.

I bought and read the book some time back when I heard him being interviewed on NPR, and it's an amazing insight into what happened with the FBI and CIA, and how the bush/cheney administration literally jumped in the fire with their eager thirst for blood, and insisted on water boarding and many other methods of torture to gain what they wanted to put out to the public. Plain and simple.
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