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Posted By bruhaha 8 months ago in NewsA former State Department lawyer has told NPR he believes the Bush White House collected and destroyed all copies of a 2005 memo he wrote arguing against harsh interrogation techniques for terrorism suspects.
In an NPR interview, Philip Zelikow, a former State Department lawyer and adviser to then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, said he had been told by colleagues that his legal opinion had been ordered destroyed. The memo argued against the legality of such techniques as waterboarding, or controlled drowning, and chaining suspects to ceilings for days at a time.
"My guess is that they thought I was out of line," Zelikow said, adding that he thought the Bush administration viewed the memo as an "inappropriate and inconvenient piece of paper."
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Quite possibly they did but there are plenty of others who spoke out against the torture including all four branches of our armed services but they were all disregarded. The administration had made up their mind and had to try and justify their actions. The same tactic as the decision to go into Iraq.
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