by Scott Shane, David Johnston, & James Risen

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 – When the Justice Department publicly declared torture ?abhorrent? in a legal opinion in December 2004, the Bush administration appeared to have abandoned its assertion of nearly unlimited presidential authority to order brutal interrogations.

But soon after

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