# Padilla "Confession" Extracted After Months of Brutal Torture

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**Created:** [June 1, 2004, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/padilla-confession-extracted-after-months-of-brutal-torture/248114 "2004-06-01T18:32:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 3, 2004, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/padilla-confession-extracted-after-months-of-brutal-torture/248114/121 "2004-06-03T21:17:38Z")

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[Bush Push for Patriot Act Provokes Unease](http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=23632) (May 6, 2004)

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> Muslim rights groups in the state of California are watching nervously as President George W Bush increasingly talks of renewing the Patriot Act, a mainstay of his ”war on terrorism”, as he campaigns for the November presidential election.

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