Whitehouse to State: Gimme the 2005 Zelikow Anti-Torture Memo

[kpete]

Whitehouse to State: Gimme the 2005 Zelikow Anti-Torture Memo
By Spencer Ackerman 5/6/09 4:02 PM

One thing that Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) wants in hand when he calls Philip Zelikow to testify next Wednesday: the memo Zelikow wrote in 2005 as an aide to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pushing back against the Bush administration’s effort at giving torture the cover of law. A Whitehouse staffer says the senator has asked the State Department for any copies that may have survived the shredder. That makes Whitehouse the fifth member of Congress to ask for the memo — after Reps. John Conyers (D-Mich.), Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), William Delahunt (D-Mich.) and Howard Berman (D-Calif.) — and the first senator to do so.

http://washingtonindependent.com/42078/whitehouse-to-state-gimme-the-2005-zelikow-anti-torture-memo

[EFerrari]

1. If it even exists. n/t

[seemslikeadream]

4. Yea or maybe he has one stashed away just in case this came up

[seemslikeadream]

2. Zelikow KNEW he was covering his ass when he wrote that memo

He's one smart cookie, runnning rough shot over the 9/11 commission he knows the ropes

[Duer 157099]

3. Why doesn't Zelikow have his own copy?

I know that he was asked for his copies to destroy, but WHY in the world would he comply with such a request? Is he really an idiot?

I don't believe he destroyed his copy.

[Mme. Defarge]

5. Not a chance - n/t

[ThirdWorldJohn]

6. "White House attempted to collect and destroy all copies of my memo," asserted the honorable Zelikow