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Most Outrageous Statement Ever By a US Department of Justice


By dswanson - Posted on 03 October 2009

From Jeremy Scahill:

In defending the government's position, West cited case law stating that "genocide, torture, forced relocation, and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment by individual defendants employed by Department of Defense and State Department were within scope of employment" and similar cases justifying CIA torture as part of official duty.