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Former Attorney General John Ashcroft on Thursday disavowed the now-defunct legal reasoning used to justify harshly questioning terrorism suspects, but dug in his heels to defend White House officials who pressured him while he was hospitalized four years ago to approve terror surveillance programs. At the heart of the House Judiciary Committee hearing was whether interrogators acted legally in using harsh tactics on captured terror suspects, including waterboarding, in the years immediately after 9/11.

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