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“Debasing our country’s values did not make us safer; it only weakened us and our ability to be an unassailable voice for justice and human rights.”
– U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, in response to the U.S. Senate investigation into the CIA’s “anti-terrorism” torture methods
This article appears in December 12 • 2014.
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