NYT: Bush creates toture team to extract info from detainees

Well...not quite the headline that the WaPo ran with, and its not Bush it's Obama;


Obama Approves New Team to Question Terror Suspects


Washington Post Staff Writer


Monday, August 24, 2009; 11:31 AM



President Obama has approved the creation of an elite team of
interrogators to question key terrorism suspects, part of a broader
effort to revamp U.S. policy on detention and interrogation, senior
administration officials said Sunday.




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