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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:38:28 +0200

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Cheney
Pushing the Envelope on Presidential Power
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/cheney/chapters/pushing_the_envelope_on_presi/

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Web Q&A:» Reporter Barton Gellman, was online on Monday, June 25, to answer readers' questions about the Cheney series. Read the Q&A transcript. By Barton Gellman and Jo Becker Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, June 25, 2007 Shortly after the first accused terrorists reached the U.S. naval prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Jan. 11, 2002, a delegation from CIA headquarters arrived in the Situation Room. The agency presented a delicate problem to White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales, a man with next to no experience on the subject. Vice President Cheney's lawyer, who had a great deal of experience, sat nearby. The meeting marked "the first time that the issue of interrogations comes up" among top-ranking White House officials, recalled John C. Yoo, who represented the Justice Department. "The CIA guys said, 'We're going to have some real difficulties getting actionable intelligence from detainees'" if interrogators confined themselves to...

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