Secret Memos Undermine Torture Claims - The Philadelphia Bulletin

Secret Memos Undermine Torture Claims - The Philadelphia Bulletin: "The recently declassified memos written by Justice Department lawyers to CIA personnel provide more evidence the Bush administration and the CIA only used harsh interrogation techniques on captured terrorists when no other avenues were available.

From the beginning, administration lawyers scrambled to determine if the techniques the CIA requested to use would violate laws against torture.

An Aug. 1, 2002 memo written by Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee to CIA Acting General Counsel John Rizzo addressed interrogating Abu Zubaydah. He was a high-ranking al-Qaida official whom the CIA thought had vital information, which could prevent a terrorist attack.

The memo was a written in response to the CIA’s request to use certain techniques — including waterboarding — while interrogating Mr. Zubaydah and its desire to know if these techniques would violate laws against torturing prisoners.

It disproves critics’ claims the CIA and the Bush administration willfully and recklessly engaged in torture without regard to established law or legal procedures."

Please, this will only confuse liberals on their witch hunt with facts. facts make their heads hurt and then just end up saying ..

BUSH's fault.