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CIA Tactics Endorsed In Secret Memos

Demonstrators hold a mock waterboarding torture of a prisioner in Times Square in January 2008 to mark the sixth year anniversary of when the United States opened the camps at Guantanamo. The administration of US President George W. Bush authorized the CIA to waterboard Al-Qaeda suspects according to two secret memos issued in 2003 and 2004, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. (AFP/File/Timothy A. Clary)

The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency's use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects -- documents prompted by worries among intelligence officials about a possible backlash if details of the program became public.

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