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 Justiceâs controversial August 1, 2002 memorandum defining torture as equivalent to âorgan failure, impairment of bodily function, or even deathâ… except when he did, albeit two years later.
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