Between 2002-2003, the Justice Department issued several memos that justified using interrogation tactics that critics call torture. "If you look at the timing of the meetings and the memos you'd see a correlation," the former intelligence official said. Those who attended the dozens of meetings agreed that "there'd need to be a legal opinion on the legality of of these tactics" before using them on al-Qaida detainees. |
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.