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President Obama has indicated he doesn’t want to dwell in the past. But Christopher Hayes, Washington Editor of The Nation compares the 1970s Church Committee, which exposed the dark underbelly of Cold War spy operations, to the present uproar over CIA interrogations of detainees from the War on Terror and concludes:

The danger now isn’t naïveté but cynicism–that we just come to accept that the government will commit crimes in our name under the cover of secrecy and that

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