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Australia’s Poisonous Refugee Policy
MELBOURNE, Australia — Governments tend to dislike being called torturers.
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That’s why the George W. Bush administration went through such legal contortions to exclude waterboarding from the definition of torture.
That this relied on a definition too idiosyncratic for anyone outside the Republican Party hardly mattered because it allowed President Bush to say, “the United States does not torture,” with a…