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<font style="" face="Verdana"><br></font><font style="" face="Verdana">The CIA wanted to hold them back, but they're being released </font><font style="" face="Verdana"><br></font><font style="" face="Verdana">unredacted except to hide the identities of the interrogators. </font><font style="" face="Verdana"><br></font><font style="" face="Verdana"><br></font><font style="" face="Verdana">Apparently they include</font><style type="text/css">
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--></style><font style="" face="Verdana"> an 8-1-02 memo authored by John Yoo </font><font style="" face="Verdana"><br></font><font style="" face="Verdana">and
signed by Jay Bybee, and some 2005 memos by Steven G. </font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Verdana"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Verdana">Bradbury. </font><style type="text/css">--
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--></style><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-weight: normal;">According
to the Wall Street Journal, one of these <br>memos said </span></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Verdana"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Verdana">"a prisoner's head could be struck against a wall
as <br>long as the head was being held and the force of the blow was
<br>controlled by the interrogator."</font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Verdana"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Verdana"><br></font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Verdana">MSNBC reports the story under a headline that seems to exonerate <br>the CIA: "CIA employees won't be tried for waterboarding; Holder <br>gives first definitive assurance officials are legally in the clear". </font><style type="text/css">ge { margin: 0.79in }
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--></style><br><br><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Verdana">Obama's statement reserves all rights
with respect to retaining the<br>classified nature of secret
activities, and seems to suggest that he <br>will leave any prosecutions
to the Spanish court. "[N]</font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Verdana">othing
will be <br>gained by spending our time and energy laying blame for the
past." <br></font><br>Bybee is now a Judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, <br>reportedly posted to
Las Vegas. According to Sourcewatch, Bradbury <br>got
an English degree in 1980 from Stanford, where he had been a <br>resident
at Synergy House.<br><br>Editorial comment: While Obama's statement <font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Verdana">claim that </font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Verdana"> "</font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2" face="Verdana">these
methods <br>of interrogation are already a thing of the past"
may technically true, it <br>fails to acknowledge that only prosecution and punishment can
prevent <br>them from being a thing of the future as well.</font> <br><br><meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title></title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 3.0 (Win32)"><style type="text/css">
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30249847">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30249847</a></p><meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title></title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 3.0 (Win32)"><style type="text/css">
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/04/obama_explains_memo_release_decision.php">http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/04/obama_explains_memo_release_decision.php</a></p><meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title></title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 3.0 (Win32)"><style type="text/css">
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steven_G._Bradbury">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steven_G._Bradbury</a></p>
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