Condi admits to meetings discussing torture

[lame54]

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Senior Bush administration officials held a series of meetings in the White House in 2002 and 2003 to discuss allowing the CIA to use harsh interrogation methods on Al Qaeda detainees, according to a written statement Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently provided to Senate investigators. Rice’s written response to investigators on the Senate Armed Services Committee marks the first time a high-ranking White House official has formally acknowledged the White House discussions, which led to the CIA’s use of waterboarding and other coercive methods…read on

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/26/condi-rice-admits-that-senior-cabinet-members-held-meetings-in-the-white-house-to-discuss-torture/

[Solly Mack]

1. Well yeah.,...the Principals Committee

under the rules of the PC, Rice would head the meetings.

[IndyOp]

2. K&R&R&R&R&R&R&R&R&R&R&R&R - if only I could rec more than once. Peace. (n/t)

:cry:

[ooglymoogly]

3. KR TO THE ROOFTOPS KR,KR,KR,KR

and once again if only I could

[bluesmail]

4. K&R OK everybody's flipping out

about the bailout. Good Timing, DARTH & Torture team! Head Hurts

[L. Coyote]

5. Taxi to the Dark Side: Monday at 9 p.m.

September 28, 10:23 AM
Taxi to the Dark Side: Monday at 9 p.m.
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/09/hbc-90003627

One of the major breakthroughs of the first McCain–Obama debate on Friday night passed with almost no notice. Both John McCain and Barack Obama, in characterizing their opposition to the Bush Administration’s interrogation program, called it torture. To those who have tracked this question with any care, there is no doubt whatsoever that the Bush Administration pursued torture as a matter of policy. However, ferocious blowback from the administration has up to this point intimidated the American media from calling things by proper names. As the Bush Administration now enters into its final meltdown, the perfect time has come to examine the moral corruption that has long festered right under the surface of what passes for national security policy.

On Monday evening at 9 p.m. (ET/PT), 8 p.m. (CT), HBO premiers this year’s Oscar-winning documentary, “Taxi to the Dark Side,” in which I appear. Don’t miss it.