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OnDoutside

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26. On a side note, my cousin's third cousin on his mother's side

Reply to Farmer-Rick (Reply #20)

Thu Jan 25, 2018, 10:49 AM

Jan 2018

taught military how to defend against interrogation techniques like waterboarding, when he was in the USAF, and also iirc blew the whistle on Bruce Jessen who wrote the terror interrogation manual under the Bush Administration.

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+1 dewsgirl Jan 2018 #3

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I pray we eventually get to see this. His attorney's have to be losing their minds. dewsgirl Jan 2018 #21

Judging from what I've seen of their performance so far, too late RandomAccess Jan 2018 #30

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+1 dewsgirl Jan 2018 #31

I use to do investigations in the Navy Farmer-Rick Jan 2018 #6

Which of course the opponents (within Intel) of waterboarding tell us too. More likely to get a OnDoutside Jan 2018 #18

Yeah, real investigators know torture is Not done to get at the truth Farmer-Rick Jan 2018 #20

On a side note, my cousin's third cousin on his mother's side OnDoutside Jan 2018 #26

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