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Dems wary of Bush choice for CIA counsel (AP)
Filed: June 19th 2007: Democrat

AP - The CIA’s top lawyer said Tuesday he did not object to a 2002 memo authorizing interrogation techniques that stop just short of causing a sensation of impending organ failure or even death.

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