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• Officials: CIA gave waterboarders $5M legal shield

  December 17, 2010 in Nation/World The CIA agreed to cover at least $5 million in legal fees for two contractors who were the architects of the agency’s interrogation program and personally conducted dozens of waterboarding … 36

• CIA fired Spokane psychologists who aided interrogations

  June 15, 2009 in Nation/World, City WASHINGTON — Weeks after President Obama took office, the CIA extended its contract with a firm run by two Spokane psychologists who helped introduce waterboarding and other harsh methods to … 1

• Panetta: Water boarding is torture

  February 6, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – Leon E. Panetta, President Barack Obama’s pick to lead the CIA, testified Thursday that he believed the harsh interrogation technique known as water-boarding to be torture and vowed …

• Attorney general pick: Waterboarding is torture

  January 16, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A2 WASHINGTON – With just three words, Attorney General-designate Eric Holder capped years of angry debate over U.S. counterterrorism policy and declared a major break from the Bush administration. “Waterboarding is …