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CIA torture: a very disingenuous mea culpa
Paddy McGuffin finds the CIA reaction to the recent torture report wanting

So, there you have it. The CIA tortured hundreds if not thousands of people and hid behind the egregious euphemism of “enhanced interrogation.” Quelle surprise!

In further shock news Pontiff wears funny hat and ursine mammals defecate in arboreal surroundings.

The evidence published this week by a US Senate committee was indeed damning — as far as it went — detailing as it did, waterboarding, sleep deprivation, beatings and rectal force feeding among numerous other charming techniques routinely employed by the spooks.

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