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'Justifying' Torture: Two Big Lies by Coleen Rowley and Ray McGovern

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Lie #1: The Bush Administration claims they tortured out of concern for protecting American lives, and to disrupt Al Qaeda- but they blocked the FBI from interviewing Moussaoui for years after 9/11.

Lie #2: Torture "saves lives"; the Bush Administration has claimed torture has prevented attacks, but has never offered any evidence to back up the claim. Torture's counter-productive effects have been documented
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