“On October 2, 2002, Jonathon Fredman, Counsel to CIA Counter-terrorism Center, attended a meeting at Guantanamo with Staff Judge Advocate Lt. Col. Diane Beaver, Maj. Gen. [Michael] Dunlavey, and Lt. Col. Jerald Phifer in which they discussed use of harsh interrogation techniques. …Beaver’s comments coincide with the DOJ’s [Department of Justice’s] methods of creating legal justification for harsh interrogation and torture by saying, ‘we’ll need [legal] documentation to protect us.’ Her comments also indicate that the methods they discussed were illegal under international and possibly U.S. law.”
– M. Cherif Bassiouni, The Institutionalization of Torture by the Bush Administration, Pages 55-56