Rice approved waterboarding

Amanda Dominguez

In light of the recent memos about the Bush administrations "interrogation techniques" , it has recently come out that Condoleezza Rice had approved of these techniques as early as 2002 against Al-Qaeda suspect Abu Zubaydah. When asked about it later, the Senate report stated that the officials "reaffirmed that the CIA programme was lawful and reflected administration policy". According to the CIA memos, Zubaydah was waterborded 83 times and confessed 183 that the mastermind of the attacks on September 11 was Khalid Sheikh Mohammad. Funny, you would think after the first confessions that waterboarding would no longer be needed in this case, but surely that would just be too easy for the administration. Obama has yet to say whether he will prosecute those in charge of the torture techniques saying that he will leave it up to the Attorney General.

BBC news