Senators clashed Wednesday over whether they should investigate former lawyers with the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel over their involvement with memos that authorized harsh interrogation techniques for suspected terrorists.
At the first congressional hearing on the subject, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and other Democrats questioned a former State Department official and other legal experts about how the memos were written. Whitehouse said that OLC lawyers “ignored, bastardized, and manipulated” the law when they supported techniques like waterboarding, and he pushed for possible sanctions against the lawyers.
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