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The book "The Dark Side" offers new details of the CIA's secret detention program. It says the CIA shared the 2007 Red Cross report on torture with President Bush and Condoleezza Rice. That report concluded that interrogation methods for high-level prisoners constituted torture and could make administration officials guilty of war crimes.

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    bubba21 month, 4 weeks ago

    In August 2007, investigative journalist Jane Mayer reported in the New Yorker that a highly confidential report by the International Committee of the Red Cross had found that interrogation methods used in CIA detention facilities were tantamount to torture.

    After the article was published, President Bush was asked in a news conference if he had read the Red Cross report. "Haven't seen it; we don't torture," Bush bluntly responded.

    How do you spell "liar"?

    B-U-S-H.

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      sinophil491 month, 4 weeks ago

      Bubba - In today's technological world, shouldn't we now be talking about mega-lies and giga-lies??

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