The former officials said the CIA interrogators’ refusal was a factor in forcing the Bush administration to act earlier than it might have wished.
When Mr Bush announced the suspension of the secret prison programme in a speech before the fifth anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks, some analysts thought he was trying to gain political momentum before the November midterm congressional elections.
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It's as if NOW the facilities at Guantanamo are acceptable. The UN had ordered those facilities closed and the prisioners allowed rights of a democracy. Instead we see the same facilities expanded. It's a shell game and only the Americans can see it. No one's objecting and accepting this as an alternative.
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