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C.I.A. Man Retracts Claim on Waterboarding
Submitted by Little Alex on Fri, 2010-01-29 04:00
Jeff Stein: Well, it's official now: John Kiriakou, the former C.I.A. operative who affirmed claims that waterboarding quickly unloosed the tongues of hard-core terrorists, says he didn't know what he was talking about.
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