Thursday, May 21, 2009

The little bastard approved torture

Long before he marshaled his legal stooges to give legal blessing to illegal torture, Abu Gonzalez was signing off on similar techniques as if he were back in Texas signing death warrants.
Months before the first “torture memo” was issued by Bush administration lawyers in 2002, Alberto Gonzales – then White House counsel – personally approved “borderline torture” techniques used on Abu Zubaydah, according to a new report.

An anonymous source told NPR that in April and May of 2002 CIA contractor James Mitchell sought approval on a daily basis for so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” via top-secret cables to the CIA’s counterterrorism center. The CIA forwarded those cables to the White House, according to National Public Radio, and Gonzales would approve the technique, thus granting a legal basis for Mitchell’s actions – in theory at least.
At the time he was only the presidents lawyer, with no standing in the official chain of command beyond the president's ear. Curious.

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