Addington, Gonzales Witnessed Gitmo Interrogations In 2002; Approved Of ‘Whatever Needs To Be Done’»

[babylonsister]

Addington, Gonzales Witnessed Gitmo Interrogations In 2002; Approved Of ‘Whatever Needs To Be Done’»


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. {Gonzales, Addington, and Haynes} 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.’

Listen to the interview at link, read more~

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

[Richard D]

1. Torture

Not "harsh interrogations techniques".

[bushmeister0]

2. MyGod, this Addington fellow is more dangerous than even Cheney, I think.

Cheney's Rasputin and the media acts like he doesn't exist.

[babylonsister]

3. No doubt he is; he's one bad dude that whispers in Cheney's ear. nt

[bushmeister0]

5. OMG!

[bushmeister0]

4. I love this bit about Jack Bauer

"Beaver added that the TV show 24, specifically Jack Bauer 'gave people lots of ideas.' 'We saw <24> on cable. … It was hugely popular.' 'She believed the series contributed to an environment in which those at Guantánamo were encouraged to see themselves as being on the frontline - and to go further than they otherwise might,' Sands writes."

Maybe we can get Addington on drunk driving, at least?

[Ghost in the Machine]

6. Off to the greatest with you...

"America doesn't torture."

I guess we can truthfully say that the Bushit misadministration is wholly unAmerican, now, right?

IMPEACH. INDICT. IMPRISON!