1.0 link 197955 <![CDATA[Poll: Twenty Percent Of Americans Support Torturing Terrorist Suspects]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/06/poll-twenty-percent-of-co_n_197955.html A CNN poll released on Wednesday revealed that roughly 20 percent of the public said the interrogation techniques used by the Bush administration constituted torture but support use of the techniques on terrorist suspects regardless.

The figure, somewhat buried in the release of the poll, helps explains why, as CNN Polling Director Keating Holland says, "a majority don't want to see former Bush officials investigated."

Six out of every ten people surveyed said they believed that the interrogation techniques used...

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