ABC News is reporting sources have told them Bush, Cheney, Rice, rumsfeld, Powell, Tenet and Ashcroft held meetings to discuss and approve “enhanced interrogation techniques. Gee, ya think we’ll hear about this from the MSM? Naw………not important. The American Idol super show will draw more attention than this story. I wonder how many of these dickwads got off talking in such detail about torture tactics. It must have been a real cumfest for them…… I’m just sayin.
Highly placed sources said a handful of top advisers signed off on how the CIA would interrogate top al Qaeda suspects — whether they would be slapped, pushed, deprived of sleep or subjected to simulated drowning, called waterboarding.
The high-level discussions about these “enhanced interrogation techniques” were so detailed, these sources said, some of the interrogation sessions were almost choreographed — down to the number of times CIA agents could use a specific tactic.
The advisers were members of the National Security Council’s Principals Committee, a select group of senior officials who met frequently to advise President Bush on issues of national security policy.
At the time, the Principals Committee included Vice President Cheney, former National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell, as well as CIA Director George Tenet and Attorney General John Ashcroft.
The national security adviser, Rice chaired the meetings, which took place in the White House Situation Room and were typically attended by most of the principals or their deputies.
