Wednesday, October 15, 2008

[Section 15] Secret Whitehouse memos endorsed torture

CIA Tactics Endorsed In Secret Memos: Waterboarding Got White House Nod

The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency's use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects -- documents prompted by worries among intelligence officials about a possible backlash if details of the program became public.

But it's okay because Jack Bauer agrees with it.

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Posted By Mark Francis to Section 15 at 10/15/2008 10:58:00 AM

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