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"In Classic Friday News Dump, Bush Admits He Approved White House Torture Guidelines"
"by Jon Ponder | Apr. 12, 2008
“Well, we started to connect the dots in order to protect the American people. And yes, I’m aware our national security team met on this issue. And I approved,” George Bush admitted yesterday in a classic Friday news dump.
The big story on cable news today is the controversy over Obama saying voters were “bitter.”
Because the story was released late on Friday, news that Bush sanctioned his top advisers’ allegedly criminal conspiracy to authorize CIA interrogators to use torture, which is illegal under U.S. and international laws, will likely go unnoticed over the weekend, because reporters are obsessed with the Democratic candidates’ mudslinging and horse race.
According to ABC News, in perhaps the most intentionally candid statement he has made on the record since he assumed office, Bush admitted to ABC’s White House correspondent Martha Raddatz that he was aware of and approved detailed torture planning by top officials in his administration:
President Bush says he knew his top national security advisers discussed and approved specific details about how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency….
The high-level discussions about [the torture 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.
These 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, sources told ABC news.
In addition to Bush, suspects in the alleged conspiracy include a who’s who of top officials in Bush’s first term, principally Dick Cheney, Condoleeza Rice, Colin Powell, John Ashcroft, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet and their aides, says ABC News.
Among the suspects, most have refused to comment about the allegations. Powell, who was then Secretary of State, has told ABC News that he didn’t have “sufficient memory recall” about the meetings and that he had participated in “many meetings on how to deal with detainees…” But that “I’m not aware of anything that we discussed in any of those meetings that was not considered legal.”
Last year, George Tenet, who was CIA director at the time of the meetings, attempted to shift blame preemptively to Ashcroft, a devout Christian who was U.S. Attorney General at the time he participated in the alleged conspiracy. “It was authorized. It was legal, according to the Attorney General of the United States,” Tenet told ABC News."
