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WASHINGTON - Former Memphis congressman Harold Ford Jr. is taking exception to MSNBC host Chris Matthews' suggestion that Ford's views on torture after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were "veering into Cheney territory."
Ford sent an e-mail message to the Washington bureau of The Commercial Appeal Wednesday to clarify that he is "adamantly opposed to torture," but that, "given the environment that our intelligence officials were operating in after 9/11, it is not surprising that 'enhanced methods' were executed in an effort to gain valuable and, in some cases, actionable, intelligence.See the full content of this document
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Ford Defends Defense of Torture
"Any effort to link me to former Vice President C...
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