Sources: Top Bush Advisors Approved 'Enhanced Interrogation'

[Bozita]

Source: ABC World News

Sources: Top Bush Advisors Approved 'Enhanced Interrogation'
Detailed Discussions Were Held About Techniques to Use on al Qaeda Suspects

By JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG, HOWARD L. ROSENBERG and ARIANE de VOGUE
April 9, 2008—

In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House, the most senior Bush administration officials discussed and approved specific details of how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency, sources tell ABC News.

The so-called Principals who participated in the meetings also approved the use of "combined" interrogation techniques -- using different techniques during interrogations, instead of using one method at a time -- on terrorist suspects who proved difficult to break, sources said.

Highly placed sources said a handful of top advisers signed off on how the CIA would interrogate top al Qaeda suspects -- whether they would be slapped, pushed, deprived of sleep or subjected to simulated drowning, called waterboarding.

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At the time, the Principals Committee included Vice President Cheney, former National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell, as well as CIA Director George Tenet and Attorney General John Ashcroft.
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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=4583256

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ABC's been showing some cajones this week. This is their third big story in three days, imho.

Oops, I forgot to mention that Powell's scheduled to be on GMA in the AM.

[dipsydoodle]

1. Coincidently I just watched Rendition.

There is an interesting documentary as one of the aditional features on the DVD. I'd recommend anyone who hasn't seen it to get a copy and watch and listen to the lies of the Administration using news clips interposed with interviews of those who've suffered torture following rendition.

[superconnected]

2. 'enhanced interrogation' ah a new word for torture.

[Kaleko]

4. It's the exact translation of 'Verschärfte Vernehmung.' The word the Nazis used.

[elleng]

18. This fact should be broadcast

in HUGE letters, IMO.

[Jack Rabbit]

3. Impeach. Indict. Imprison

Or send each and every one of them to The Hague.

[calimary]

5. Amen!

Or BOTH. Can I have both? IMPEACH, Indict, Imprison, AND The Hague? Please-please-please? With sugar on top?

[truth2power]

6. The whole lot of them need to be sent to the Hague

to stand trial for crimes against humanity!!!

Oh, and include that worthless POS, Yoo.

[elehhhhna]

7. "approved" or "demanded" ?

[samsingh]

8. bet it went right to the top?

lousy precident for our enemies to follow with our soldiers when they're prisoners

[ToughLuck]

9. Bastards is what they are!

[bluesmail]

10. whoa shit, hit the fan soon, not much time left

everybody's scared to talk publicly

[Bleacher Creature]

11. I really hope Rice gets the VP nod.

She really has no redeemable qualities an a record replete with failures and disgrace.

[Xipe Totec]

12. No doubt the document was stimulating bathroom reading material for them nt

[FourScore]

13. They should be tried in the Hague.

k&r

[deminks]

14. The torture sessions were "choreographed"???

I have said all along that someone in this misadministration had a jones for torture. Who was watching?

Snip

The high-level discussions about these "enhanced interrogation techniques" were so detailed, these sources said, some of the interrogation sessions were almost choreographed -- down to the number of times CIA agents could use a specific tactic.

http://www.americablog.com/2008/04/cheney-rice-rumsfeld-powell-tenet-and.html

[truth2power]

15. Yep. I've said it right along....

The guys (Bush, Rummy and others) are getting their rocks off watching people suffer. Some day it'll come out.

[Bozita]

16. Thanks for posting the video. ... Link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x116618

For the MSM, this is a real blockbuster.

[deminks]

17. You're welcome. Thank you for posting the news report.

It is a blockbuster for the media to actually implicate the WH.

Where Condi chairs a meeting, can Chimpy be far behind?

[HereSince1628]

19. .

[jmowreader]

20. A couple more of these reports, and we won't have to rely on Nancy...

to get rid of the worthless fuck and all his lackeys.

Eventually, the MSM is going to announce that "the most senior Administration officials" is a group that includes Bush and Cheney.

This is an election year, the Republican Party is led by criminals, and the voters are fucking sick of it. Let's see...torture, illegal wars, the total collapse of the economy, and Three Dollar Plus Gasoline. They're going to tell Dipshit to go home the day after it's proven Bush ordered torture, which you KNOW he did.