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In the controversy over whether torture, especially waterboarding, was used to gather information leading to the capture of Osama bin Laden, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told Fox News\u2019 Sean Hannity recently that \u201cno one was waterboarded at Guantanamo by the US military. In fact, no one was waterboarded at Guantanamo, period.
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Via Scoop.it – Rights & LibertiesIn the controversy over whether torture, especially waterboarding, was used to gather information leading to the capture of Osama bin Laden, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told Fox News\u2019 Sean Hannity recently that \u201cno … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":281,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2015\/02\/18\/this-is-who-we-are-guantanamo-torturer-led\/","url_meta":{"origin":1503,"position":0},"title":"This _is_ who we are: Guant\u00e1namo torturer led brutal Chicago regime of shackling and confession","author":"aslam","date":"February 18, 2015","format":"link","excerpt":"(Emphasis mine.) 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