Bush admits waterboarding approval
12/4/08
George Bush has admitted that senior US officials including Dick Cheney had approved CIA’s use of harsh interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, on key al-Qaeda suspects. The US president told ABC News there was no problem with using the methods and that legal advice the government received allowed the interrogations. “We had legal opinions that enabled us to do it. And, no, I didn’t have any problem at all trying to find out what Khaled Sheikh Mohammed knew,” Bush said on Friday. The CIA has admitted using waterboarding on Mohammed, reportedly al-Qaeda’s second-in-command, who later confessed to planning the September 11 2001 attacks on New York.
See: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/EA0D1E37-BAB3-4360-A30C-312B0FF9D024.htm