Rice To CIA Regarding Torture: "This is your baby. Go do it."

[kpete]

At one meeting in the summer of 2003 -- attended by Vice President Cheney, among others -- Tenet made an elaborate presentation for approval to combine several different techniques during interrogations, instead of using one method at a time, according to a highly placed administration source.

A year later, amidst the outcry over unrelated abuses of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib, the controversial 2002 legal memo, which gave formal legal authorization for the CIA interrogation program of the top al Qaeda suspects, leaked to the press. A new senior official in the Justice Department, Jack Goldsmith, withdrew the legal memo -- the Golden Shield -- that authorized the program.

But the CIA had captured a new al Qaeda suspect in Asia. Sources said CIA officials that summer returned to the Principals Committee for approval to continue using certain "enhanced interrogation techniques."

Then-National Security Advisor Rice, sources said, was decisive. Despite growing policy concerns -- shared by Powell -- that the program was harming the image of the United States abroad, sources say she did not back down, telling the CIA: "This is your baby. Go do it."

http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/LawPolitics/Story?id=4635175&page=4

[Elspeth]

1. kick

:kick:

[amihol]

5. kickkick!

[jimshoes]

2. There are a lot of bad apples showing up lately

Starting right at the top. What form of government is this anyway?

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. They knew about this before the 2004 presidential election and withheld

the information. We've been played all the way through.

[Fovea]

3. Who knew apples grew that high up?

It appears that there were a few bad pine cones too.

[OwnedByFerrets]

4. Get on to the front page

[bluesmail]

6. It's obvious it's Friday. K&R

[Alexander]

7. I wonder how this would play out on a McCain/Rice ticket.

[Disturbed]

9. Ms Rice approve the Torture Methods that McSame

has condemned. Yeah, that will play real well with her VP aspirations.

[spanone]

10. hell has reservations for these folks

[pacalo]

11. "This is your baby. Go do it."

Okay, sister. Just make sure no coppers put the tail on us.

[AzDar]

12. Got War Crimes?

:mad:

[wordpix]

13. "It was legal, according to the Attorney General of the United States."

Gonzo asked Bush what part of his ass he wanted kissed every day.