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Article: SEN. FEINSTEIN DENOUNCES PRESIDENT BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S ENDORSEMENT OF TORTURE, RENEWS CALL TO REQUIRE ALL U.S. INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES TO FOLLOW ARMY FIELD MANUAL IN INTERROGATIONS

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October 15, 2008
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The office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., issued the following news release:

U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today denounced the Bush Administration's secret approval of torture methods used by the CIA during interrogations, and renewed her call for all U.S. intelligence agencies to be required to follow the Army Field Manual's rules on interrogations.

Senator Feinstein's remarks came on the heels of news reports Wednesday that the Bush Administration, in 2003 and 2004, issued secret memos to the CIA endorsing the agency's use of waterboarding and other coercive interrogation techniques against al-Qaeda suspects. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, of which Sen. ...

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