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  <title>The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals </title>
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    <body><![CDATA[A somewhat forgotten aspect of the Bush Administration as it leaves office amidst economic chaos but a less chaotic Iraq is the chilling abandonment of American values in the renditioning and torture programs aimed at terror suspects--and not all of the guys who were tortured turned out to be terrorists.  Starting from a premise that the Commander in Chief has absolute powers as to waging war, a clique of lawyers reporting to Vice President Cheney drafted legal memoranda redefining torture and taking detainees outside the protection of the Geneva Conventions (to whom the Conventions pretty clearly apply).  Practices such as waterboarding turn out to have been more frequently used than the Administration acknowledged, and some detainees even died.  Simultaneously, other lawyers, both in the Justice Department and the armed services (NCIS, and the Army and Navy JAG Corps) were morally offended, and campaigned to reverse the Bush torture policies.  These weren't bleeding heart ACLU types, but, rather, conservatives who share a pretty traditional view of the U.S. Constitution.  That these conservative lawyers were outraged by the rendition and torture programs goes to show just how radical the Bush Administration had become.  Even former Attorney General John Ashcroft, no bleeding heart liberal, was opposed to the Cheney policies.  The FBI refused to employ torture on the terror suspects it interrogated, mostly because torture almost never works to obtain accurate information.  So, in the end, the Administration strayed far outside the U.S. Constitution and international law to get information that wasn't worth a shit in the first place.]]></body>
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