Congressional Disclosure on Torture as Internecine Combat
Philip Zelikow details an argument that was deployed against me when he opposed torture in the Bush administration: We briefed the following members of
Jul 31, 202068.5K Shares1.6M Views
Philip Zelikow details an argument that was “deployed against me” when he opposed torture in the Bush administration: “We briefed the following members of Congress — name name name name name name name — and they didn’t have a problem with this.”
Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) brought the point up to argue against the political argument that informing Congress “incomplete[ly]” amounted to “complicity” in the programs. Apparently such disclosure had rhetorical value in internal Bush administration debate.
Paula M. Graham
Reviewer
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