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Published 11/04/2009 by Globe and Mail

Not coming to terms with torture

EST T Mr. Obama has done much to roll back the legacy of his predecessor, George W. Bush, and restore the post-Second World War consensus opposing torture. He threw out Mr. Bush's legal redefinition of torture, by which, for instance, waterboarding (near-drownings) became permissible. The military...

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