Caroline Frederickson

Director of the Washington Legislative Office, ACLU

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Caroline Frederickson on KCRW

The Senate Armed Services Committee  report  says "abusive" interrogation techniques were not the work of a few low-level "bad apples" at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay.

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