Alberto Gonzales Authorized Torture: NBC

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This just in: Alberto Gonzales, as George Bush's personal attorney, before becoming Attorney General of the United States, personally authorized waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation" techniques BEFORE they were allowed to be enacted by the CIA, hiring a contractor named James Mitchell to carry out torture on Abu Zabaeda, thus becoming the de facto policy of the Bush Administration in 2002, months before anyone in congress including Nancy Pelosi were even aware of it.

Proving what was a well-known secret all along, that the executive branch had Alberto Gonzales as a counsel to the president, clairify the new definition of torture, or "enhanced interrogation" as "up to and including organ failure" and waterboarding as "controlled drowning" as the official policy of this government, against our laws, and in direct violation of the US Constitution.

Source: NBC news./ Ari Shapiro for NPR