A new article from Newsweek reveals some interesting cleavages in the internal administration debate …
The handling of al-Libi touched off a long-running battle over interrogation tactics inside the administration. It is a struggle that continued right up until the Abu Ghraib scandal broke in Aprilâand it extended into the White House, with Condoleezza Rice’s National Security Council pitted against lawyers for the White House counsel and the vice president. Indeed, one reason the prison abuse scandal won’t go awayâtwo months after gruesome photos were published worldwideâis that a long paper trail of memos and directives from inside the administration has emerged, often leaked by those who disagreed with rougher means of questioning.
Always the VP, always the VP.
