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President Obama has said the Justice Department would have to decide whether the lawyers who authorized the interrogation methods should face charges, while pledging that interrogators would not be investigated or prosecuted for using techniques that the lawyers said were legal.
It also described the interrogation methods in unflinching detail.
He did not address whether lawyers who had authorized the interrogation methods should face any penalty.
The committee's narrative report (pdf) also shows that dissenting legal views about the interrogation methods were brushed aside repeatedly.
Within the agency, the necessity, effectiveness and legality of the interrogation methods have been repeatedly subject to review.
Mr. Bush has defended the use the interrogation methods, saying they helped provide critical intelligence and prevented new terrorist attacks.
The F.B.I. has had fierce fights with the Pentagon over the interrogation methods used in Guantánamo and elsewhere.
Yet many of the interrogation methods used in sere training seem to have been applied at Guantánamo.
Though lawmakers, human rights activists and others eventually condemned the interrogation methods as torture, the program had defenders.
— Aaron Dome, Chicago A. Some of the interrogation methods may fit a legal or common-sense definition of torture.
The interrogation methods were authorized by a secret set of rules that were endorsed by the Justice Department and the Central Intelligence Agency.
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