Obama team meets with anti-torture generals
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 2:10 am
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Obama team meets with anti-torture generals
By Pamela Hess - The Associated Press
Posted : Wednesday Dec 3, 2008 20:50:46 EST
WASHINGTON — A dozen retired generals met with President-elect Barack Obama’s top legal advisers Wednesday, pressing their case to overturn some of the Bush administration’s terrorism-fighting policies.
Obama has criticized practices that he says amount to torturing detainees during interrogations and has promised to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Among those who met with Eric Holder, Obama’s pick to be attorney general, and Greg Craig, the incoming White House counsel, were Gen. Charles Krulak, a former Marine Corps commandant, and retired Marine Gen. Joseph Hoar, former chief of the Central Command.
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