rssState Department ‘Unaware’ of Zelikow’s Torture Dissent
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at 1:30 pm
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After Philip Zelikow, a former aide to Condoleezza Rice, disclosed yesterday that he wrote a memo in 2005 dissenting from the Office of Legal Counsel’s embrace of the CIA’s abusive interrogation techniques, I called the State Department to get a copy of Zelikow’s dissent. I traded calls for the past 24 hours with the press office for the memo, because Zelikow wrote that he believes “one or two” copies of it “are still at least in the State Department’s archives.” But the department says it doesn’t know about that.
Noel Clay, a spokesman for the State Department, told me that he checked with “several different bureaus” and is “unaware that such a memo exists.” However, he helpfully added, “if one does, you’d probably have to file a FOIA request” for it.
So guess what I did a couple minutes ago. The department has confirmed receipt of my Freedom of Information Act request, and now begins the interminable wait for disclosure, which may never occur, since no government agency respects FOIA, in my experience. (This is actually the second FOIA request I filed since lunchtime. It’s annoying me.) But you can see Zelikow on Rachel Maddow last night talking about how the Bush administration suppressed his memo. (Video after the jump.)
I leave it up to the reader whether the department’s current lack of familiarity with a memo from a former senior official has anything to do with the campaign of suppression Zelikow describes here.
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74 Comments
Comment posted April 22, 2009 @ 9:21 pm
Spencer, have a little patience. The Bush Administration's policy on FOIA was to assume that the documents did not have to be disclosed. The Obama Administration reversed that policy immediately.
But keep up your good work!
Comment posted April 27, 2009 @ 4:22 am
At first I thought Zelikow was carrying water for Condi Rice.
But now I think he is trying to get out from under the waterfall before the spiggots get pulled.
Comment posted April 27, 2009 @ 11:22 am
At first I thought Zelikow was carrying water for Condi Rice.
But now I think he is trying to get out from under the waterfall before the spiggots get pulled.
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