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Bush administration gave nod for CIA waterboarding: report
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AFP
October 15, 2008
The administration of US President George W. Bush authorized the CIA to waterboard Al-Qaeda suspects according to two secret memos issued in 2003 and 2004, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
The memos were issued at the request of intelligence officials who were “troubled that White House policymakers had never endorsed the program in writing,” the newspaper said, citing four administration and intelligence officials familiar with the documents.
“The classified memos, which have not been previously disclosed, were requested by then-CIA Director George J. Tenet more than a year after the start of the secret interrogations,” the Post said.
“Although Justice Department lawyers, beginning in 2002, had signed off on the agency’s interrogation methods, senior CIA officials were troubled that White House policymakers had never endorsed the program in writing.”
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Tenet’s first request for written approval by the White House came in 2003, during a meeting with National Security Council members including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the paper quoted the unnamed officials as saying.
The first secret memo was issued shortly thereafter, “a brief memo conveying the administration’s approval for the CIA’s interrogation methods, the officials said.”
Tenet made a second request in 2004 as revelations of abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison came to light.
“Officials who held senior posts at the time also spoke of deteriorating relations between the CIA and the White House over the war in Iraq — a rift that prompted some to believe that the agency needed even more explicit proof of the administration’s support,” the report said.
The newspaper said administration officials “confirmed the existence of the memos, but neither they nor former intelligence officers would describe their contents in detail because they remain classified.”
A White House spokesperson was not immediately available for comment.
Waterboarding, a staple of brutal interrogations from the Spanish Inquisition to Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime, usually consists of strapping down a captive, covering his face with a cloth and pouring water onto the cloth to simulate drowning.
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October 15th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Wow this story is several weeks late. It was already known and reported out by other agencies weeks ago. Recall that little meeting in the WH where they all discussed “torture methods” and Rice admitted she was a part of it along with Darth and the usual suspects. Horrible.
October 15th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
I had my brother try waterboarding me with a washcloth, its horrible man, just a put a rag over your nose and mouth and poor a cup of wather over it next time your in the shower, then imagine being straped down and handcuffed with 2 or more men yelling questions at you. You would admit to things you dident even do.
October 15th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
Why don’t we follow their lead and just behead the perp.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:27 am
Do unto others as you’d…these torturers are going to get it! It’s horrible to treat someone in this manner. We have to take responsibility for our own actions. I want the U.S.A. to stop being the worlds bully boys and return to being the good guys. This is utterly disgusting. Butchery and evil.
October 16th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Candy Apple,
In 1969 when I stepped off the plane in Nam,one of the first things I saw was a Brown&Root truck. When is it that you last believe that the U.S. was the “Good Guys”?
October 16th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Candy Apple,
In 1969 when I stepped off the plane in Nam, one of the first things I saw was a Brown&Root truck. When is it that you think the U.S. was actually the “Good Guys”?
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October 20th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Wow!!! That waterboarding is horrible. Just think what might be next! They might puncture the back of our head and suck our brains out or slice us to pieces and suck us up in a vacuum like we do to babies!!