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Hello, Bugleers and welcome to Bugle Issue 4,225 sub-episode B for back next week, but still

on holiday at the moment.

This week we delve into the Bugle archives to reveal what was happening at various points

of the last 14 and a half years.

Now let's spin the magic time reversing wheel and blast ourselves into the Bugle past.

What year should we go to?

Well, let's find out!

2009

Top story this week, I'm not telling you what it is, ow, ow!

Okay, I'll tell you, just please don't ever do that again.

Torture, look, you got all the answers that you wanted, but I have lost all respect

for you and I may have been radicalised.

Well that's right, we have been away for a few weeks and in this time torture has

reared its unpleasantly intimidating head again.

When we left to go on break, everyone seemed to have agreed that torture was something

that was confined to America's extremely recent past, but that complicated situation

has now somehow managed to get even complicated.

First, the US government said they don't torture, then they really find what torture was

and reminded us that they never did that thing they don't do.

Then they have made it that they had water-borted but argued that it wasn't torture and besides

they've only done it three times.

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