Rodriguez & CIA Lawyer REMOVED Sentence about Torture Illegality from Pelosi, Goss Briefing Record
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The sentence Jose Rodriguez and his lawyer eliminated the day after folks at CIA discussed destroying the torture tapes showing they had already used this torture recorded that one or both of Pelosi and Goss noted that these techniques would be illegal in another country
In early September 2002, the CIA briefed the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) leadership about the CIAs enhanced interrogation techniques. Two days after, the CIAs (redacted)CTC Legal [redacted], excised from a draft memorandum memorializing the briefing indications that the HPSCI leadership questioned the legality of the program by deleting the sentence: HPSCI attendees also questioned the legality of these techniques if other countries would use them.2454 After (redacted) blind-copied Jose Rodriguez on the email in which he transmitted the changes to the memorandum, Rodriguez responded to email with: short and sweet.
At least one of these members of Congress (or their staffers) got briefed on torture and said the torture would be illegal if other countries used it, according to CIAs own records. So CTCs lawyer eliminated that comment from the CIAs record, with Jose Rodriguez gleeful approval.
And yet he says Congress approved of these techniques from the start.
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