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Like Iraq, the “Facts” Regarding 9/11 Were “Fixed Around the Policy”

3 facts show that the government “fixed the facts” regarding 9/11 around a policy decision to exonerate the government from any blame whatsoever.

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Was Critical Note Muzzled By Bush White House?

A former State Department lawyer has told NPR he believes the Bush White House sought to collect and destroy all copies of a 2005 memo he wrote arguing against harsh interrogation techniques for terrorism suspects. In an NPR interview, Philip Zelikow, a former State Department lawyer and adviser to then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, said he had been told by a colleague that his legal opinion had been ordered to be collected and destroyed. The memo argued against the legality of such techniques as waterboarding, or controlled drowning, and chaining suspects to ceilings for days at a time.

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