Philip Zelikow's remarkable testimony yesterday before the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts yesterday centered on the context and purpose for his now-famous 2006 memo countering the Office of Legal Counsel's findings that the CIA's "program of coolly calculated dehumanizing abuse and physical torment to extract information," as he put it, did not violate the U.S. Constitution's prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment.
The sum of all Constitutional fears: Zelikow
The sum of all Constitutional fears: Zelikow
The sum of all Constitutional fears: Zelikow
Philip Zelikow's remarkable testimony yesterday before the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts yesterday centered on the context and purpose for his now-famous 2006 memo countering the Office of Legal Counsel's findings that the CIA's "program of coolly calculated dehumanizing abuse and physical torment to extract information," as he put it, did not violate the U.S. Constitution's prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment.