Sen. Whitehouse Takes on Torture Memos
To follow up on my earlier post about Sen. Pat Leahy’s (D-Vt.) refusal to hold hearings on the torture memos as chair of the Judiciary Committee, we now learn,
Jul 31, 2020605.5K Shares8M Views
To follow up on my earlier postabout Sen. Pat Leahy’s (D-Vt.) refusal to hold hearings on the torture memos as chair of the Judiciary Committee, we now learn, as Spencer just wrote, that Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) has boldly taken the reins, using the Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts, which he chairs, to hold hearings to start trying to get to the bottom of just how and why those memos were written — and on whose orders.
Former State Department adviser Philip Zelikow’s testimonycould go a long way toward revealing how his contrary advice — he says he warned Bush administration officials that the torture and abuse of prisoners as illegal — was ignored by the lawyers and policymakers in charge. The key, though, would be getting those lawyers and policymakers to testify about why they ignored it.
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