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"I stand for 8-10 hours a day. Why is standing limited to 4 hours?"
DONALD RUMSFELD, U.S. Secretary of Defense, in a handwritten note on a newly released memo in which he approved interrogation techniques for Guantnamo detainees that included standing for up to four hours. Rumsfeld works at a stand-up desk

"It was an honest mistake, not a deliberate deception."
J. COFER BLACK, U.S. State Department counterterrorism chief, after the Bush Administration revised its tally of last year's terrorist acts upward to show a 5% increase rather than a 4% decrease from...

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