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Published 07/09/2009 by The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

NPR's "Torture" Policy

The ombudsman explains: when other countries do it, it's torture; when the US does it, because we're not doing it for political repression, it isn't torture. Even if the techniques are identical. This is the policy of the entire MSM. Again: it isn't...

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