READ (1/3): The former counsellor at the State Department, trusted advisor and deputy to then-Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and former executive director of the 9/11 Commission, Phillip Zelikow, read the infamous (then secret) torture memoranda in 2005.
READ (2/3): Zelikow told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on April 21, 2009, "the legal reasoning seemed deeply unsound to me (...) and so I thought it was important to just say, 'Hey, there's another view here!' (...) America has fought a number of wars in our history, including against unconventional enemies. This was an interrogation program, however, for which there is no precedent in the history of the United States. We've never done a program like this before."
READ (3/3): In a recent contribution to Foreign Policy magazine, Zelikow wrote "the White House attempted to collect and destroy all copies of my memo."
WATCH (1/2): "Rachel Maddow - former Rice confidant Philip Zelikow on the torture memos, part 1"
Part One: "I looked at their point of view and it didn't strike me as a mainstream or reasonable way of construing the relevant standards of treatment, of the definition of terms like 'cruel', 'inhuman' or 'degrading'. They were using an interpretation of how to comply with that standard that I didn't think any judges or lawyers outside the administration would find plausible."LINK (1/2): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKzLChQ1p7k
WATCH (2/2): "Rachel Maddow - former Rice confidant Philip Zelikow on the torture memos, part 2"
Part Two: "It was my job to fight this with every ounce of energy at my disposal using the legal means in front of me."LINK (2/2): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOy1YZ1acQg
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