"History will not judge this kindly." - John Ashcroft

Big story. Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Powell, Tenet, and Ashcroft are all put in the torture jackpot by ABCNews.

In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House, the most senior Bush administration officials discussed and approved specific details of how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency, sources tell ABC News.....

Highly placed sources 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.

The high-level discussions about these "enhanced interrogation techniques" were so detailed, these sources said, some of the interrogation sessions were almost choreographed -- down to the number of times CIA agents could use a specific tactic.

These are war crimes, folks.

(How do you function as Secretary of State if travel to other countries risks arrest?)