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Obama Weighs Memo Dump

The Obama administration and senior national-security officials are reviewing whether to release additional Central Intelligence Agency memos on interrogation methods, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney has requested that the administration declassify additional CIA memos that he said would show the tactics worked.

Mr. Gibbs said on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday that the review process would take about three weeks.
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