Do we consider this a "deathbed confession", or in-your-face bragging that the Bushies have now admitted what we already knew?

Ewen MacAskill in Washington, Vikram Dodd

The Guardian, Thursday 15 January 2009

US lawyers battling against torture and other abuses at Guantánamo Bay are braced for George Bush issuing last-minute pardons to protect those in his administration most closely implicated.

The lawyers' warning came after a senior member of the Bush administration, Susan Crawford, admitted for the first time that torture had been carried out. Until now, the Bush administration, in particular the vice-president, Dick Cheney, had denied the interrogation techniques at Guantánamo constituted torture.

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