Investigations

Philip Zelikow, who was counselor to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, wants an independent investigation into who knew what about interrogation practices when. And he wants it in part because of the impact the policies surrounding those practices had on the people inside agencies who pushed back against them. Laura Rozen writes:

Zelikow, who revealed last month on ForeignPolicy.com that the Bush White House tried to destroy all copies of a 2006 memo he wrote opposing the policies, has generally sought to avoid the political spectacle, but describes the program as a collective failure. He is calling for an independent commission to investigate what happened.

"I think the record will show as CIA wants it to be known that quite a number of people from both parties were aware of this program, and endorsed it over a period of years," Zelikow told The Cable on the eve of his still-embargoed testimony Tuesday. "Goodness knows, this was a problem for the people inside" like himself "who objected to the program. We were constantly told, we briefed XYZ and they had no problem with that."