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“It is fairly remarkable that the lead responder here is the director of the CIA. But that may be a reflection of the administration’s original decision to cordon off the issue and not have a broader partisan blood bath over the Bush White House’s involvement in torture,” says Dartmouth’s Daniel Benjamin in a New York Times story about the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the CIA’s interrogation methods.

Benjamin is the director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding.