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.At the time he was only the presidents lawyer, with no standing in the official chain of command beyond the president's ear. Curious.
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.
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