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Chris Coons: In my view, in the last administration, legal opinions were improperly used to facilitate acts of what is now broadly…

On the recordJuly 8, 2013
In my view, in the last administration, legal opinions were improperly used to facilitate acts of what is now broadly understood to be torture.
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Chris Coons
Democratic · Delaware

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Coons critiques the use of legal opinions in the context of enhanced interrogation techniques.

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