During his time as the Acting General Counsel after 9/11, [Rizzo] requested the famous "Torture Memo" from the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) at the Department of Justice, in which OLC Head Jay Bybee expressed the opinion that waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques ("EITs") were not prohibited under U.S. law... Rizzo said that most of his dealings at the time were with John Yoo, who is believed to have drafted the memo.
"International law is included... in the Agency's operational risk calculus for covert operations."
0 TrackBacks
Listed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: "International law is included... in the Agency's operational risk calculus for covert operations.".
TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.firejohnyoo.net/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/1584
UC Berkeley Billboard
Donations via PayPal
are not tax deductible.
Events & Calendars
Important Reading
Physicians for Human RightsBroken Laws, Broken Lives
NLG White Paper
ON THE LAW OF TORTURE...
The President's Executioner
Detention and torture in Guantanamo