To: stockman_scott who wrote (158789 ) 3/4/2005 11:10:22 AM From: GST Read Replies (1) | Respond to <Torture, while long an unspoken element of the CIA's repertoire, came into favor after 9-11. Within one week of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Vice President Cheney stated on "Meet the Press" that the government was going to operate on "the dark side" and would "use any means at our disposal.to achieve our objective." Cofer Black, then the CIA official in charge of counter-terrorism, told the House and Senate Intelligence Committees in September 2002, "All you need to know is that there was a 'before 9/11' and there was an 'after 9/11.' After 9/11, the gloves came off." According to top State Department officials, and reported by Jane Mayer in the New Yorker of February 14, the decision to suspend the Geneva Conventions - a decision based, in part, on the opinion of then White House counsel and now Attorney General Alberto Gonzales - was made by President Bush on January 8, 2002.
