"Recalling the Downing Street Minutes" by Ray McGovern (7-24-09 Consortium News)

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"Seven years ago this week, then British Prime Minister Tony Blair gathered his top national security advisers at 10 Downing St. to hear a report from U.K. intelligence chief Richard Dearlove just back in London from face-to-face talks with then-CIA Director George Tenet in Washington."

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/072409d.html

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1. K & R

Ray is one of my heroes.

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2. I so dearly love Ray McGovern ..a truth teller he is of the highest stature! eom

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3. And what else was seven years ago this week?

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Rice_gave_early_waterboarding_green_light_0423.html

US forces captured Zubaydah in a late March 2002 firefight in Pakistan, tended to his serious injuries, and began to question him, according to the timeline.

The agency asked senior officials in Washington, including Rice, in mid-May 2002 to discuss the possibility of using methods, including waterboarding, that were rougher than traditional interrogation methods.

The CIA made the request because it "believed that Abu Zubaydah was withholding imminent threat information during the initial interrogation sessions."

The US Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel orally advised the CIA on July 26, 2002, "that the use of waterboarding was lawful," a finding it put in writing on August 1, 2002, the timeline said.