Are Americans 'Better Than That'?
 
Resent-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:08:42 -0600 (CST)

Waterboarding is back on center stage in Washington as the CIA
explains why it destroyed prisoner videotapes, President Bush keeps
insisting he doesn't do torture, and Democrats mutter excuses about
why they didn't object. With this troubling backdrop, former CIA
analyst Ray McGovern asks whether Americans are "better than that"?

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