By Greg Miller, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
September 25, 2008
WASHINGTON -- Senior Bush administration officials held a series of meetings in the White House in 2002 and 2003 to discuss allowing the CIA to use harsh interrogation methods on Al Qaeda detainees, according to a written statement Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently provided to Senate investigators.
Rice's written response to investigators on the Senate Armed Services Committee marks the first time a high-ranking White House official has formally acknowledged the White House discussions, which led to the CIA's use of waterboarding and other coercive methods.
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Whoa, sorry Johnny, but the US has been the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world since WWII. The list of dictators wielding death squads on their own populations, supported by the US in the name of anti-communism, is a s long as your arm (Chile, Nicaragua, Argentina, Iraq, Iran, etc. etc.). The list of countries screwed over economically to support American economic and political interests if far longer (google about the World Bank v.s. Jamaica). About the only educated people who don't know about the real role of the US the last 5 decades are US citizens themselves. Start doing some reading, pal!