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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:35 AM
Subject: re: Interrogation Debate Sharply Divided Bush White House
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:35 AM
Subject: re: Interrogation Debate Sharply Divided Bush White House
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
I am puzzled that "Top C.I.A. officials [in 2005] feared that the agency's methods could actually be illegal" only after the passage of a new law by congress. The bill of 2005 duplicated language and prohibitions from the Conventions on Torture that the U.S. Senate had ratified twenty years earlier. It was already the settled law of the land that cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment--like torture--is illegal.
Barry Levine
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