Quote of the Day: George W. Bush Defends Waterboarding
"Yeah, we water-boarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed"
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President Obama's speech on counterterrorism on Thursday won rave reviews among some who seemed to see it as a return of the liberal constitutional law professor who ran for president in 2008. But while the tone might have been refreshing, maybe we should wait to see Obama's follow-through?
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