{"id":402,"date":"2008-04-09T21:38:48","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T02:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/09\/white-house-choreographed-torture-sessions\/"},"modified":"2008-04-09T22:00:10","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T03:00:10","slug":"white-house-choreographed-torture-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/09\/white-house-choreographed-torture-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Choreographed Torture Sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABC has a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/print?id=4583256\">bombshel<\/a><\/strong>l tonight about how Cheney and other top Bush administration officials would sit at the White House and decide exactly how Muslim detainees would be tortured.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ABC noted: &#8220;The high-level discussions about these &#8216;enhanced interrogation techniques&#8217; were so detailed, these sources said, some of the interrogation sessions were almost choreographed &#8212; 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