Regarding the Justice Department’s August 1, 2002 memo, which allowed for the use of torture against enemy combatants, National Security Advisor Condoleezza “Rice and [Secretary of State Colin] Powell, in what was now a familiar pattern, knew nothing about this document until they read about it two years later, on June 8, 2004, in The Washington Post.”
– Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Page 241