(NYT) Questions Raised About Bush’s Primary Claims

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in Defense of Secret Detention System

By MARK MAZZETTI
Published: September 8, 2006

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 — In defending the Central Intelligence Agency’s secret network of prisons on Wednesday, President Bush said the detention system had used lawful interrogation techniques, was fully described to select members of Congress and led directly to the capture of a string of terrorists over the past four years.

A review of public documents and interviews with American officials raises questions about Mr. Bush’s claims on all three fronts.

Mr. Bush described the interrogation techniques used on the C.I.A. prisoners as having been “safe, lawful and effective,” and he asserted that torture had not been used. But the Bush administration has yet to make public the legal papers prepared by government lawyers that served as the basis for its determination that those procedures did not violate American or international law.

The president said the Department of Justice approved a set of aggressive interrogation practices for C.I.A. detainees in 2002 after milder ones proved ineffective on Abu Zubaydah, the first of the Qaeda leaders taken into custody.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/08/washington/08intel.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[LynnTheDem]

1. No "questions about Mr. Bush’s claims on all three fronts"...

it's LIES...LIES...and LIES.

Lying. It's a way of life for bush. Always has been.

[ninkasi]

2. You're right about that

I can't think of very much, if anything, that he has told the truth about. Well, except for the times he claimed it would be easier if this were a dictatorship, as long as he's dictator. Otherwise, it's all lies, all the time.