Colin Powell wouldn’t know credibility if it bit him
POWELL: I don’t know where these things were being approved at a political level.
MADDOW: If there was a Principals Meeting at the White House to discuss interrogation techniques?
POWELL: It does not mean it was approved, anything was approved, at a meeting.
MADDOW: OK.
POWELL: It depends on did the meeting end up in a conclusion or was it just a briefing that then went to others to make a final decision on and to document. And so it is a legal issue and I think we have to be very careful and I have to be very careful because I don’t want to be seen as implicating anybody or accusing anybody because I don’t have the complete record on this. And that complete record I think in due course will come out.
Once you start discussing torture techniques at the cabinet level, and the thing that comes out of the meeting is not a succinct “Don’t do that; if you do that you will go to jail”, it’s all over but the truth commission.
