John Rizzo, President Bush’s choice for the CIA general counsel, has gotten opposition for standing by a 2002 memo that defined torture as pain “equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of body function, or even death.” Now the Senate intelligence committee has requested that Rizzo’s name be withdrawn for the nomination.
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