Cheney's Document Request Just a Start

摘要

Cheney, who advocated the tough tactics, responded to Obama by urging the release of two secret CIA memos that disclosed vital information gained from such al Qaeda heavyweights as 9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed, and Abu Zubaydah, an aide to bin Laden. In his book, At the Center of the Storm, former CIA Director George Tenet wrote of a painstaking legal process in Washington that ultimately produced White House authority to use harsh techniques on just a few al Qaeda bigwigs.