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"We have to learn the lesson that intellectual honesty is fundamental for everything we cherish." -Sir Karl Popper

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Thursday, June 16, 2005

Funny how this keeps happening...

No sooner does someone in the administration dismiss all concerns about a given issue than information comes out that proves the contrary. After seeing the delicious chicken dishes made available to detainees in Guantanamo Bay, and all the assurances that they're being treated a heck of a lot better than than an uncharged, swarthy type deserves... well, you know the routine:

The interrogation techniques used at Guantanamo Bay Detention Center in 2002 triggered concerns among senior Pentagon officials that they could face criminal prosecution under U.S. anti-torture laws, ABC News has learned.

Notes from a series of meetings at the Pentagon in early 2003 — obtained by ABC News — show that Alberto Mora, general counsel of the Navy, warned his superiors that they might be breaking the law.

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