"If foiling the Library Tower plot was the reason to water-board Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, then that water-boarding was more than cruel and unjust. It was a waste of water." Rehashing the recently released Justice Department memos and debunking the chronology of events that led to the interrogation of Al-Qaeda suspects, Slate looks at the role of the Pei Cobb Freed & Partners-designed* 73-story tower in downtown Los Angeles in the whole story. Bonus: President Bush sometimes mistakenly referred to the building as the Liberty Tower. [Slate]
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