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White House hints, but won’t say, that waterboarding is legal - The Carpetbagger Report

1. A CIA employee says they used waterboarding on a prisoner.
2. The US uses only legal methods of interrogation.
3. Therefore waterboarding is legal.

Seems pretty straight forward, but the White House spokesperson Dana Perino refuses to say if it’s legal or not. Why might that be? We have 100 years of history going back to the American occupation of the Philippines, prosenUS law and international treaties that clearly defines waterboarding as torture. Can’t go that way. The other option is

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