When the Obama White House disclosed memos from the previous administration's discussions about terrorist interrogations, critics jumped at the chance to accuse, yet again, the Bush administration of torturing detainees.
Media reports that CIA agents had waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah 266 times stirred an already angry nest of political opponents who want to prosecute Bush officials for their tactics in the war on terrorism.
As has been said, a lie will make it halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on. Deceptive reporting operates at the same speed.
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