Rice Signed off on interrogation techniques

Watching Jonathan Landay on Olbermann. Searched his name and McClatchey News on Google and found this article, but it is by Margaret Talev.

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 controversial 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.

I watched Philip D. Zelikow on Rachel Maddow last night who said he wrote a memo that was later confiscated, in which he objected to the Torture Memos and spelled out his objections. This article says Condoleezza Rice signed off on it. Philip Zelikow said that Condy Rice was against the methods of torture while she was Secretary of State.

From Scott Shane and Mark Mazzetti of the NYT

In a series of high-level meetings in 2002, without a single dissent from cabinet members or lawmakers, the United States for the first time officially embraced the brutal methods of interrogation it had always condemned.
This extraordinary consensus was possible, an examination by The New York Times shows, largely because no one involved — not the top two C.I.A. officials who were pushing the program, not the senior aides to President George W. Bush, not the leaders of the Senate and House Intelligence Committees — investigated the gruesome origins of the techniques they were approving with little debate.
Read this NYT story.