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April 22, 2009

Drive to Invade Iraq Compromised Interrogations, Led to Abuses
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Several Army officials raised objections as the torture techniques were
developed and taught. And in a development that traces back to the White
House’s drive for invading Iraq, one Army major complained the
interrogations were being compromised by an insistence on establishing a
“link between al-Qaeda and Iraq.”



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