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Thursday, June 19th, 2008...2:43 pm


“War Council”

McClatchy enumerates the five Bush/Cheney administration attorneys, the “war council” as they called themselves, who provided the tortured legal rationale for the ensuing torture of prisoners at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, and in Afghanistan. Alberto Gonzales, Gonzales’ deputy Timothy E. Flanigan, former DOJ attorney and now Berkeley professor of law  John Yoo, Cheney chief of staff David Addington, and former Rumsfeld general counsel William Hayes III did so, of course, at the behest of Cheney, while presumably Incurious George was busy playing video games.

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