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The Truth About John Ashcroft

The only written document we have is the sort of after the fact interpretation by the guy who was interrogating him. He never signs a written confession, right? That like even if you're a teenage shop lifter, they show you a piece of paper with like, what are you admitting to? Yeah. So finally after this is now three weeks since he's been shot, they finally treat the wound. They finally do surgery. All of this is before Abu Ghraib, by the way. We had kind of some plausible deniability about not torturing people in the Middle East at the time. But yeah, but because no one wrote it down, we can't hear them suggesting

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