Monday, May 18, 2009

Chertoff Gave CIA Green Light to Waterboard Prisoner

In the summer of 2002, Michael Chertoff, then head of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, green-lighted the technique known as waterboarding, and offered assurances to the CIA that its interrogators would not face prosecution under anti-torture laws if they followed torture guidelines approved by the Department.

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