CONDI RICE WAS THE FIRST TO APPROVE WATERBOARDING (READ ARTICLE)

As national security adviser to former President George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice verbally approved the CIA's request to subject alleged al-Qaida terrorist Abu Zubaydah to waterboarding in July 2002, the earliest known decision by a Bush administration official to OK use of the simulated drowning technique: http://tinyurl.com/c88l3f