WH defends release of torture memos

From: The Washington Times | April 20, 2009 

Top White House officials denied Sunday that President Obama’s release of top-secret memos hurt national security by giving terrorists details of U.S. interrogation techniques – as charged by the former head of the CIA and four of his predecessors – saying the information was already public. “Virtually everything that was in those memos has been publicly reported,” senior adviser David Axelrod said Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “The New York Review of Books had a full catalogue of these techniques that were given to the International Red Cross through testimony. The CIA may believe that al Qaeda doesn’t read …

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