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Not “a particularly reliable source of information.”

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Hillary Clinton has thrown off the gloves and jumped into the debate raging over the torture memos. Speaking at the House Foreign Affairs Committee today, Congressman Dana Rohrbacher of California pressed Hillary Clinton to persuade Obama to release all the relevant torture documents, as Dick Cheney has requested. "Well, it won't surprise you, I don't consider him a particularly reliable source of information," Clinton replied, eliciting laughter from the crowd. The congressman was not amused and pressed further, but Clinton only added that it was important to "get to the bottom of this entire matter."

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