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Bush Whitehouse Blocked Waterboarding Critic

A senior Justice Department official, charged with reworking the administration's legal position on torture in 2004 became so concerned about the controversial interrogation technique of waterboarding that he decided to experience it firsthand, sources told ABC News.

Daniel Levin, then acting assistant attorney general, went to a military base near Washington and underwent the procedure to inform his analysis of different interrogation techniques.

After the experience, Levin told White House officials that even though he knew he wouldn't die, he found the experience terrifying and thought that it clearly simulated drowning.

Levin, who refused to comment for this story, concluded waterboarding could be illegal torture unless performed in a highly limited way and with close supervision. And, sources told ABC News, he believed the Bush Administration had failed to offer clear guidelines for its use.

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But Levin never finished a second memo imposing tighter controls on the specific interrogation techniques. Sources said he was forced out of the Justice Department when Gonzales became attorney general.

They have an official actually ballsy enough to go find out what this is really all about, they do not like what he learned so they dump him……..Levin was clearly too good for this crowd, unfortunately almost all Daniel Levins of this country have been pushed out our current government and replaced with political hacks who have no moral fiber.

 

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Posted By Curlydog - Bill to The Curlydog Blog at 11/03/2007 11:19:00 AM