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Mother Jones
by Nick Baumann and David Corn

05/06/09

Who in the George W. Bush White House tried to shred a memo challenging the use of torture? On April 21, Philip Zelikow, who was counselor to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during the Bush administration, revealed on Foreign Policy’s ‘Shadow Government’ blog that he wrote a memo in 2005 disputing the conclusions of Bush Justice Department lawyers that torture was legal. The existence of such a memo was a surprise. But Zelikow also disclosed that the ‘White House attempted to collect and destroy all copies of my memo.’ This story is not over. Zelikow tells Mother Jones that he doesn’t know for sure who in the White House ordered the suppression of his memo, but he says that his ’supposition at the time’ was that the office of Vice President Dick Cheney was behind the cover-up...

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