Think Progress: Addington, Gonzales Witnessed Gitmo Interrogations In 2002; Approved Of ‘Whatever...

[maddezmom]

Last month, ABC News revealed that President Bush’s most senior advisers approved the use of harsh interrogation tactics. Days later, Bush confirmed to ABC he “approved” of the tactics.

In a forthcoming book, British international law professor Phillippe Sands further documents how the most extreme interrogation techniques — including stress, hooding, noise, nudity, and “dogs” — came directly from the White House and Pentagon.

Sands reveals that Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s lawyer Jim Haynes traveled to Guantanamo in 2002, witnessed an interrogation, and sent approval back to Washington. The “driving individual was Mr. Addington, who was obviously the man in control,” Sands said:

There was an extraordinary meeting held in September 2002, just before the techniques were to go up the chain of command, so to speak. descended on Guantanamo, met with the combatant commander there Mike Dunlavey, watched some interrogations, and as I was told by Dunlavey and by his lawyer Diane Beaver, basically sent out the signal ‘do whatever needs to be done.’

more:http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/21/sands-guantanamo/

[Warpy]

1. Addington gets little mention in the press

but he's the architect of all the rotten foreign policy that has come out of this administration. He's the one whispering into Cheney's ear like Grover (Wormtongue) Norquist whispers into Stupid's.

Once this scum is out of power, Addington will have to be one of the first of them called to account for their crimes. He's a major string puller of the men who approved our country's descent into savagery.