Question Time for Nominee Linked to Interrogations (Confirmation hearing today)

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/19/washington/19rizzo.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1182259237-/nAGKYzaAxCpbYt4DChSSw

Question Time for Nominee Linked to Interrogations


By MARK MAZZETTI and SCOTT SHANE
Published: June 19, 2007

WASHINGTON, June 18 — In the months after the Sept. 11 attacks, at a time when the Central Intelligence Agency had long been out of the interrogation business, senior C.I.A. officers scrambled to build a program to question terror suspects in secret jails abroad.

To check on the legality of the harsh interrogation techniques they proposed, they turned to John A. Rizzo, who was then acting as the agency’s top lawyer.

On Tuesday, Mr. Rizzo will go before the Senate Intelligence Committee for a confirmation hearing to become the C.I.A.’s general counsel, giving the new Democratic majority its first chance at a public airing of agency practices that drew condemnation abroad and set off a prolonged debate at home.

Mr. Rizzo has been acting general counsel off and on for most of the last six years, serving without Senate confirmation. He was first nominated to the position last year, but a confirmation hearing was delayed.

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1. Buzzy Krongard speaks!

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“He’ll be the piñata,” said A. B. Krongard, executive director of the C.I.A. from 2001 to 2004, who remains a strong defender of the detention and interrogation program.

Mr. Krongard said Mr. Rizzo worked hard to see that the program was lawful, insisting on written legal opinions from the Justice Department.

“He did everything possible to get it right,” Mr. Krongard said. For any legal faults, he added, “Rizzo can be held accountable, I guess, but nowhere near as much as the Justice Department.”

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Buzz is the guy to whom they traced the hedge-buying of UA stock just before 9/11. In other words, he knows who "did" Building 7-- and all the rest.

What a shocker that he wants to protect our harsh interrogations mastermin, and also to point the finger at Justice Dept. Not the CIA's fault that waterboarding was used, eh?

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2. K & R!

don't let this one slip through the cracks, folks!

The Shadow Government is on the Move!