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War on Terror w/ Spencer Ackerman Part 2

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Obama's Bond Makes It Impossible That Torturers Would Ever Be Held Accountable

Obama once said, we tortured some folks, but it's important for us not to feel too sanctimonious in retrospect. How does that, in obama's formulation, become sanctimony? Once obama ops for a less conspicuous moronte, the mechanism he is going to rely on, by necessity, is the c ia. He is, ea oint entirely unequipped, by factive interest to hold the c i a accountable for torture.

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