{"id":1433,"date":"2010-01-27T14:14:03","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T19:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2010-01-27T14:15:09","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T19:15:09","slug":"cia-torture-success-claim-cast-overboard-drowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/27\/cia-torture-success-claim-cast-overboard-drowns\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA Torture Success Claim Cast Overboard, Drowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Stein has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2010\/01\/26\/cia_man_retracts_claim_on_waterboarding?page=full\"><strong>great piece<\/strong> <\/a>on how the most prominent CIA apologist for waterboarding has finally &#8216;fessed up that he didn&#8217;t know what he was talking about.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the news media treated this CIA &#8220;expert&#8221; like a hero back in 2007.  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