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investigation into
# a CIA torture manual they came into possession of "Counterintelligence
# Interrogation."
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# The comprehensive manual even includes "medical, chemical or electrical"
# tips for torturers such as "If a new safe house is to be used, the
# electric current should be known in advance so that transformers or
# other modifying devices will be on hand if needed."

: "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996
:
: Without informing anyone outside the Justice Department, and only a very
: few within, the U.S. Attorney General and the FBI Director agreed upon a
: plan by which the president could suspend many of the key safeguards of
: the Constitution.
:
: Under the top-secret agreement, code-named "Security Portfolio," the FBI
: was authorized, in the event of an ill-defined emergency, to summarily
: arrest up to 20,000 persons and place them in national security detention
: camps.
:
: A watch list of those who should be detained---along with detailed
: information about what they looked like, where they lived and their
: place of employment---was developed by the FBI.
:
: The decision as to who was placed on the watch list was left to the
: FBI and included many whose only crime was to openly criticize some
: aspect of American life.
:

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which Moses declares that they have been all their life ungrateful to
God, and that he knows they will be still more so after his death; but that
he calls heaven and earth to witness against them and that he has taught
them enough.

He declares that God, being angry with them, shall at last scatter them
among all the nations of the earth; that as they have offended Him by
worshipping gods who were not their God, so He will provoke them by calling
a people who are not His people; that He desires that all His words be
preserved for ever, and that His book be placed in the Ark of the Covenant
to serve for ever as a witness against them.

Isaiah says the same thing, 30.

632. On Esdras.--The story that the books were burnt with the temple proved
false by Maccabees: "Jeremiah gave them the law."

The story that he recited the whole by heart. Josephus and Esdras point out
that he read the book. Baronius, Annales Ecclesiastici a Christo Nato ad
Annum 1198, 180: Nullus penitus Hebraeorum antiquorum reperitur qui
tradiderit libros periisse et per Esdram esse restitutos, nisi in IV Esdrae.

The story that he changed the letters.

Philo, in Vita Mosis: Illa lingua ac character quo antiquitus scripta est
lex sic permansit usque ad LXX.

Josephus says that the Law was in Hebrew when it was translated by the
Seventy.

Under Antiochus and Vespasian, when they wanted to abolish the books,