FBI email: Bush authorized detainee abuse


	FBI email: Bush authorized detainee abuse

masbury

1-2-2009 11:07 PM

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masbury says:

FBI senior agent wrote in '04 in internal email that Bush had signed an executive order authorizing abuse

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1-3-2009 11:13 AM

Moliticon

When! When is this going to bear fruit?! I think this nation needs to show the world that we have the mettle to explore the heinous renderings of the last administration AND their cronies in Congress and in Britain.

1-3-2009 5:43 PM

Kelika

I agree with Moliticon.

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