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Ashcroft Defends Actions On Torture Memos

by Ari Shapiro, NPR
July 17, 2008

Former Attorney General John Ashcroft says he approved legal memos that narrowly defined torture. He also tells a House panel he approved a memo that withdrew the earlier ones because the legal reasoning behind them was flawed and needed to be corrected.

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  • All Things Considered, July 17, 2008
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