{"id":197415,"date":"2008-02-06T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/06\/bush-authorized-torture-and-the-ag-signed-off-on-it\/"},"modified":"2008-02-06T06:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T11:03:00","slug":"bush-authorized-torture-and-the-ag-signed-off-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/06\/bush-authorized-torture-and-the-ag-signed-off-on-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Authorized Torture, and the AG Signed off On It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we now know that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSN0517815120080205?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=topNews\">the CIA tortured at least three suspects with waterboarding<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I looked around at some other articles, and found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/US\/02\/05\/terror.threat\/index.html\">this on CNN<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell, who also testified at the hearing, said waterboarding remains a technique in the CIA&#8217;s arsenal, according to The Associated Press. He said it would require the president&#8217;s consent and legal approval from the attorney general, the AP reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think that he just pretty much admitted that George W. Bush personally authorized torture, and that the AG signed off on it.<\/p>\n<p>The Hague, bitches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we now know that the CIA tortured at least three suspects with waterboarding. I looked around at some other articles, and found this on CNN: Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell, who also testified at the hearing, said waterboarding remains a technique in the CIA&#8217;s arsenal, according to The Associated Press. He said it &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032,1102,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-intelligence","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}