Condoleeza Rice at Stanford >Q: Is waterboarding torture? > >RICE: The president instructed us that nothing we would do would be >outside of our obligations, legal obligations under the Convention >Against Torture. So that's -- And by the way, I didn't authorize >anything. I conveyed the authorization of the administration to the >agency, that they had policy authorization, subject to the Justice >Department's clearance. That's what I did. > >Q: Okay. Is waterboarding torture in your opinion? > >RICE: I just said, the United States was told, we were told, nothing >that violates our obligations under the Convention Against Torture. >And so by definition, if it was authorized by the president, it did >not violate our obligations under the Convention Against Torture. >
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