When the Justice Department publicly declared torture “abhorrent” in a legal opinion in December 2004, the Bush administration appeared to have abandoned its assertion of nearly unlimited presidential authority to order brutal interrogations.
[Soon] after Alberto R. Gonzales’s arrival as attorney general in February 2005, the Justice Department issued another opinion, this one in secret. It was a very different document... an expansive endorsement of the harshest interrogation techniques ever used by the Central Intelligence Agency.
The "harshest techniques ever used" by the CIA? Heh. Not by a long shot.
Still, the NYT article describes hideous, impeachment-worthy machinations by our Compassionate Conservative in Chief.
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