Rice approved CIA waterboarding…
The CIA’s use of waterboarding to interrogate terrorism suspects was approved by Condoleezza Rice as early as 2002, a senate report reveals.
As national security adviser, Ms Rice consented to the harsh interrogation of al-Qaeda suspect Abu Zubaydah, the Senate Intelligence Committee found.
Memos released last week show that he and another key detainee were subjected to waterboarding 266 times.
Former Vice-President Dick Cheney has said the techniques produced results.
The latest details were revealed in a timeline of the CIA’s interrogation programme produced by the US Senate Intelligence Committee.
It shows Ms Rice and other top Bush administration officials were first briefed about “alternative interrogation methods, including waterboarding”, in May 2002.
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