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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

Editor's note · Context

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

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