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<br>An NBC News analysis says that "more than a quarter of all footnotes in the
9/11 <br>Commission Report refer to controversial interrogation techniques," says Juan <br>Gonzalez of Democracy Now. <br><br><title>Message body</title><style>
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<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2008/2/7/the_9_11_commission_torture_how" target="_blank">http://www.democracynow.org/2008/2/7/the_9_11_commission_torture_how</a><br>
<br>Michael Ratner, Center for Constitutional Rights, offered this opinion:<br><br>"Here you have a report that’s supposed to tell us what actually happened
in its <br>key chapters on the planning of 9/11, what actually happened
when the people <br>came into the country, and you look at those footnotes,
and they’re based on <br>torture. What it has to tell you is to be very,
very skeptical about a number of <br>the conclusions in that report. You
just can’t rely on evidence of torture. We all <br>know that."<br><br>Michael Windrem, the NBC news author of the analysis said:<br><br>"At least four of them said indeed that they had provided information
only as a <br>result of being tortured. And they used the word “torture.”
They did not use <br>“enhanced interrogation techniques.” They said
“torture.” And two of them, as I <br>recall, said that they recanted what
they had said during those interrogations, <br>because it was not the truth.
And Abu Zubaydah, in particular, went into detail <br>as to what he had
said under torture and what he was now recanting."<br><br>So there you have it. An investigation into Bush-era torture can not happen,<br>because it will destroy the 9/11 Commission Report. <br><br><br><br><br><br><br>
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