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May 26 2005 12:36 PM

What Is Torture?

An interactive primer on American interrogation.

By Emily Bazelon, Phillip Carter, and Dahlia Lithwick

Click here for an interactive feature about the U.S. military's interrogation practices since Sept. 11 and the Bush administration policies that have informed them.

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