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DOES the Bush administration sanction torture?

By Amy Davidson Sorkin April 30, 2009 Did the Bush Administration sanction torture?

This allows him to preserve the right to sanction torture by defining it as not torture.

"We don't sanction torture - any allegations of torture by British personnel are investigated," the spokeswoman added.

"We do not sanction torture, we do not get involved in that, and that will continue to be our position," she said.

She added: "David would never ever sanction torture and it is completely wrong to suggest, imply, or leave a shadow of a doubt otherwise.

By Bush's own account, revenge was among his chief motives in sanctioning torture.

Foreign policy that sanctions torture abroad will always come back to bite.

What is clear is that sanctioning torture in this country would legitimize its use worldwide.

The Democrats never impeached W. and they had real grounds: starting a war on false premises and sanctioning torture.

In the memo, Mr. Romney's advisers adopted the language of the Bush administration lawyers who first sanctioned torture.