Bush admin backed CIA for waterboarding
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(Not sure what the problem with this waterboarding is, it sounds fun, like surfing)
National News
Memo from White House backed waterboarding
CIA wanted to be clear it had Bush administration support
By Joby Warrick
The Washington Post
Article Last Updated: 10/14/2008 11:10:05 PM CDT
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency's use of waterboarding and other interrogation techniques against al-Qaida suspects — documents prompted by worries among intelligence officials about a possible backlash if details of the program became public.
The classified memos, which have not been disclosed previously, were requested by then-CIA Director George Tenet more than a year after the start of the secret interrogations, according to four administration and intelligence officials familiar with the documents. Although Justice Department lawyers, beginning in 2002, had signed off on the interrogation methods, senior CIA officials were troubled that White House policymakers had never endorsed the program in writing.
One administration official familiar with the meetings said the CIA made such a convincing case that no one questioned whether the methods were necessary.
"The CIA had the White House boxed in," said the official. "They were saying, 'It's the only way to get the information we needed, and — by the way — we think there's another attack coming up.' It left the principles in an extremely difficult position."
http://www.twincities.com/national/ci_10721906?source=rss
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/081015/usa/us_qaeda_intelligence_attacks
National News
Memo from White House backed waterboarding
CIA wanted to be clear it had Bush administration support
By Joby Warrick
The Washington Post
Article Last Updated: 10/14/2008 11:10:05 PM CDT
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency's use of waterboarding and other interrogation techniques against al-Qaida suspects — documents prompted by worries among intelligence officials about a possible backlash if details of the program became public.
The classified memos, which have not been disclosed previously, were requested by then-CIA Director George Tenet more than a year after the start of the secret interrogations, according to four administration and intelligence officials familiar with the documents. Although Justice Department lawyers, beginning in 2002, had signed off on the interrogation methods, senior CIA officials were troubled that White House policymakers had never endorsed the program in writing.
One administration official familiar with the meetings said the CIA made such a convincing case that no one questioned whether the methods were necessary.
"The CIA had the White House boxed in," said the official. "They were saying, 'It's the only way to get the information we needed, and — by the way — we think there's another attack coming up.' It left the principles in an extremely difficult position."
http://www.twincities.com/national/ci_10721906?source=rss
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/081015/usa/us_qaeda_intelligence_attacks
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