“…ABC revealed [on April 9, 2008] that among the select group of so-called principals from the [Bush] administration who participated in ‘high-level discussions about these ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ were Vice President [Dick] Cheney, Secretary of Defense [Donald] Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice. ‘Highly placed sources,’ ABC reported, ‘said a handful of top advisers signed off on how the CIA would interrogate top al Qaeda suspects–whether they would be slapped, pushed, deprived of sleep or subjected to simulated drowning, called waterboarding.’ ”
– Eugene Jarecki, The American Way of War, Page 231