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Old 03-01-2005, 08:03 PM
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Default Suspect in plot to kill Bush admits guilt

That was the headline at yahoo.com

Go to the story, it's a little bit different:

U.S. Suspect in Bush Plot Admits Guilt -FBI

Read the story, it's different, still:

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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) - A U.S. citizen accused of plotting with al Qaeda to kill President Bush (news - web sites) admitted his guilt, an FBI (news - web sites) agent testified on Tuesday, but the man's lawyer said the confessions should be disregarded because they were extracted during Saudi interrogations.
If this were really a liberal media, wouldn't the headline have been:

"American citizen tortured in war on terror"?
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From what I've read, torture usually produces whatever response the person being tortured believes will end the torture. Think of the "confessions" obtained during the witch trials in medieval Europe and colonial New England and the show trials in the Soviet Union. Which is why most civilized nations have abandoned the practice.
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Old 03-01-2005, 08:12 PM
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Old 03-01-2005, 08:15 PM
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Albino was the best at extracting confessions.

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