It's going to be tough for the Administration to tapdance away from this new allegation. Of course, they really don't have to do anything more than say, "It's not true" and it will all go away. Right?
DOJ Under Gonzalez Issued Secret Opinion Approving 'Harsh CIA Interrogations'
When the Justice Department publicly declared torture "abhorrent" in a legal opinion in December 2004, the Bush administration appeared to have abandoned its assertion of nearly unlimited presidential authority to order brutal interrogations. But soon after Alberto R. Gonzales's arrival as attorney general in February 2005, the Justice Department issued another opinion, this one in secret. It was a very different document, according to officials briefed on it, an expansive endorsement of the harshest interrogation techniques ever used by [...]
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