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Ex-CIA officer defends interrogation tactics
Rodriguez says practices such as waterboarding "justified" in US jails overseas.
Last Modified: 28 Apr 2012 17:52
The man who helped lead the so-called enhanced interrogation programme in US prisons overseas has defended the policies.
 
Jose Rodriguez, former director of the CIA's National Clandestine Service, writes in a new book that techniques such as sleep deprivation and waterboarding are justified.
 
Al Jazeera's Patty Culhane reports from Washington, DC. 
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