Soufan, Zelikow to testify about torture next week

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http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/04/soufan-zelikow-testify/

Soufan, Zelikow to testify about torture.

Spencer Ackerman reports that the former top adviser to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Philip Zelikow, is set to testify before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee next Tuesday, May 13. Zelikow has become an outspoken critic of the Bush administration’s torture program. FBI interrogator Ali Soufan, who has written about how effective his rapport-building methods were in extracting information from Aby Zubaydah, is also expected to testify. Meanwhile, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) and Foreign Affairs Chairman Howard Berman (D-CA) have requested the release of Zelikow’s 2005 memo, which purportedly disputed the Justice Department’s legal rationale for torture.