N.Y. Times and Wash. Post: Interrogation Bill Allows Torture

Washington Post:

Mr. Bush will go down in history for his embrace of torture and bear responsibility for the enormous damage that has caused.

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N.Y. Times:

While the White House agreed to a list of grave breaches of the conventions that could be prosecuted as war crimes, it stipulated that the president could decide on his own what actions might be a lesser breach of the Geneva Conventions and what interrogation techniques he considered permissible.
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Glen Greenwald:

The President had only one objective with these “negotiations,” which was to ensure that the CIA’s torture program could continue, and that goal has been fulfilled in its entirety.

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