Bush, Rumsfeld and Rice in December 2001. Chuck Kennedy / MCTDocument: Cheney, Rice Signed Off On Interrogation Techniques -- McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — A newly declassified narrative of the Bush administration's advice to the CIA on harsh interrogations shows that the small group of Justice Department lawyers who wrote memos authorizing harsh interrogation techniques were operating not on their own but with direction from top administration officials, including then-Vice President Dick Cheney and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice.
At the same time, the narrative suggests that then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and then-Secretary of State Colin Powell were largely left out of the decision-making process.
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More News On The Torture/Interrogation Memos
Rice delivered OK to waterboard as Bush's adviser -- Yahoo News/AP
Congress Debates Fresh Investigation Of Interrogations -- Washington Post
Harsh interrogations approved as early as summer 2002 -- Mercury News
Effectiveness of Interrogations May Prove Elusive -- New York Times
Obama’s torture memo two-step -- Christian Science Monitor
FACTBOX - Birth and death of CIA waterboarding -- Reuters
White House fights back on torture flap -- AFP
Obama's Image-Building Campaign Threatens National Security, Republicans Warn -- FOX News
Official: Interrogation methods worked, but at too big a cost -- CNN
Presidential Poison -- Wall Street Journal opinion
Congress Knew About the Interrogations -- Wall Street Journal