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You already knew that there was no way John Yoo was shooting around memos authorizing interrogation techniques that amount to torture without the White House and Bush’s top advisers knowing about it. Now ABC News proves it — they have Cheney officially signing off and then-Attorney General John Ashcroft asking, “Why are we talking about this in the White House? History will not judge this kindly.”

That’s the kind of administration this is: John Ashcroft is the most reasonable guy in the room.