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The Secret History of Torture.

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"'The administration can't have it both ways,' Rockefeller said in a statement. 'I'm tired of these games. They can't say that Congress has been fully briefed while refusing to turn over key documents used to justify the legality of the program." Claiming only that the US "does not torture people," the White House refuses to turn over Justice Department documents on torture policy, "contending that their disclosure would give terrorist groups too much information about U.S. interrogation tactics." Those documents, announced by the NYT on Thursday, "provided explicit authorization to barrage terror suspects with a combination of painful physical and psychological tactics, including head-slapping, simulated drowning and frigid temperatures, and "show how the White House has succeeded in preserving the broadest possible legal latitude for harsh tactics."

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