Condoleezza Rice approved ‘torture’ techniques

April 24, 2009 by Infowars Ireland

Condoleezza Rice, President George W. Bush’s Secretary of State, personally approved a CIA request to use “waterboarding” and other harsh interrogation techniques.

Condoleezza Rice verbally agreed the waterboarding of to al-Qaeda suspect

She verbally agreed to allow the methods to be used on Abu Zubaydah, an al-Qaeda suspect, in July 2002, a Senate report has revealed.

Miss Rice’s role was outlined in a narrative released by the Senate Intelligence Committee as the controversy over alleged torture by the CIA continued to rage.
The information indicates that the programme was approved at the highest levels of the Bush administration.

The new timeline suggests Miss Rice played a more significant role than she acknowledged in written testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee submitted in the autumn.

It remains unclear, however, who inside the Bush administration first floated the idea of using “waterboarding” – simulated drowning – and other “enhanced” techniques against terrorist suspects in the months after the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington.

The Senate Intelligence Committee’s timeline came a day after the Senate Armed Services Committee released a detailed exhaustive report positing links between the CIA’s harsh interrogation programme and abuses of prisoners at the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in Afghanistan and Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

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