Focus Shifting To Evidence Bushies Ordered Torture

[Nonno]

"At last, the torture debate looks to be heading toward what's been the big question lurking in the background all along: was the Bush administration using torture in large part to make a political case for the invasion of Iraq?

Writing on The Daily Beast, former NBC producer Robert Windrem reports that in April 2003, Dick Cheney's office suggested that interrogators waterboard an Iraqi detainee who was suspected of having knowledge of a link between Saddam and al Qaeda.

"What I have learned is that as the administration authorized harsh interrogation in April and May of 2002 -- well before the Justice Department had rendered any legal opinion -- its principal priority for intelligence was not aimed at pre-empting another terrorist attack on the U.S. but discovering a smoking gun linking Iraq and al-Qa'ida."

More at: Focus Shifting To Evidence Bushies Ordered Torture To Boost Case For Iraq War | TPMMuckraker

[Sonsie]

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[chernmax]

Too late, Pelosi is all over it!!!