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The United States of America is awesome, we are awesome. We’ve closed the book on torture, and we’ve stopped doing it. And the reason they want to have this discussion is not to show how awesome we are. This administration wants to have this discussion to show us how we’re not awesome.
— Fox News co-host Andrea Tantaros, quoted by Gawker.
$81 million
Amount the Bush administration paid the CIA contractors who helped develop and operate the “enhanced interrogation techniques” the agency used on terror suspects, including waterboarding, NBC News reports. “The contract was for more than $180 million, but the contractors had only received $81 million when their contract was terminated in 2009.”
The presentation also noted that the President of the United States had directed that he not be informed of the locations of the CIA detention facilities to ensure that he would not accidentally disclose the information.
— From the Senate’s report on torture pertaining to President George W. Bush.
