Intelligence and military officials under the Bush administration began preparing to conduct harsh interrogations long before they were granted legal approval for doing so — and weeks before the CIA had captured its first high-ranking terrorist suspect, Senate investigators have concluded. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
Key impacts of the report are presented, including the charges that torture was performed before the faux legal memo was generated for cover.
Brent Mickum, one of Zubaydah’s attorneys, said he believes the Aug. 1, 2002, memo retroactively approved coercive tactics that already had been used. “If torture occurred before the memo was written it’s not worth the paper it’s written on and the writing of the memo is potentially criminal,” Mickum said.
These are war crimes generated from the top of our government.