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Don’t Know How to Break The News

by David Kurtz
08.25.09 | 11:25 am

Documents that Dick Cheney had been begging the CIA to release don’t actually show what Cheney claimed they would, but some in the media remain complicit in his deception. Shocking, I know.

Late Update: More on the CIA torture documents from TPM’s Zachary Roth in an appearance today on MSNBC.

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