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...drab, treacherous hills along the Afghan-Pakistani border, Morgan Spurlock sticks his head into a cave entrance and shouts, "Yoo-hoo! O-sa-ma!" Alas, there is no answer. This is not a SPOILER ALERT, unless you were maybe expecting to hear a heavily accented voice reply, "Come on in, kid. I've been itching to chat with some American doofus, if he only had the nerve to drop by. And, sure, bring your camera crew in. We'll all do lunch...
...custody have been waterboarded. To permit these and other techniques, the White House and the Justice Department developed new definitions for terms like "torture" and "detainee" and expanded theories about the power of the President to override congressional oversight in time of war. A 2003 memo by John Yoo, a former Justice Department official, which was declassified last week, went so far as to discuss the potential of the President to approve the maiming, drugging or applying "scalding water, corrosive acid or caustic substance" on detainees...
...Justice Department withdrew the memo, written by deputy legal counsel John Yoo, nine months after it was written, but the issue of U.S. treatment of prisoners remains in the headlines. The governments in Baghdad and Washington together still hold tens of thousands of prisoners in Iraq amid continuing controversy over their legal rights. U.S. military interrogators are currently limited to the less aggressive methods of questioning listed in the Army's field manual, though President George W. Bush recently vetoed a bill that would have put similar limits on the CIA. For its part, the agency is investigating the destruction...
...further proof that a five-year-old memo continues to haunt the U.S. and Iraq, there's next month's release of Errol Morris' documentary Standard Operating Procedure. Without mentioning Yoo specifically, the film shows some of his memo's darkest consequences: the systematic abuse of prisoners in U.S. custody at Abu Ghraib prison...
...their aggression in fighting the fire, in order to make sure Seoul's oldest wooden structure was left intact. The administration is refuting this claim, saying it instructed firefighters to do whatever was necessary to get the fire under control. On Tuesday, the head of the Cultural heritage Administration, Yoo Hong Joon, tendered his resignation, saying he would "take responsibility" for the blaze...