CIA Counsel Dodges on Definition of Torture | Talking Points Memo

CIA general counsel designate John A Rizzo wasn’t willing to say much during an open session before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence today, but he did make one major admission: he had not objected to the Department of Justice’s controversial August 1, 2002 memorandum defining torture as equivalent to “organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death”… except when he did, albeit two years later.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=180592