It was one of the most familiar refrains from the White House’s mouthpieces over the past several years: we don’t discuss interrogation techniques. Take, for instance, this characteristic exchange between White House spokeswoman Dana Perino and a reporter at a briefing in December, after Perino explained that “al Qaeda listens closely to everything that we do and say”…
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