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The only news in today’s WaPo story about president Bush authorizing war crimes is that we discover that oral permission to torture was subsequently put into writing. Marty Lederman has the best take on why that happened.

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Posted on Oct 15 2008 @ 1:20pmAuthor Andrew SullivanCategories The Dish

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