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Friday, July 25, 2008

Among the key memos authorizing CIA torture obtained by the ACLU this week is a heavily redacted document outlining a "good faith" exemption for interrogators, legal advice that one law professor terms "out and out fraud." Plus: Jane Mayer talks to David Letterman about "special lawyers with special answers." [Cursor.org]
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The Company We Keep.

    At one point during the five and a half years John McCain spent as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, he was tortured and beaten so badly he tried to kill himself. After four days of this brutality, he gave in and agreed to make a false confession, telling lies to end the unbearable pain. Later, he would write, "I had learned what we all learned over there: Every man has his breaking point. I had reached mine."

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