Condi Rice Denies Her Remarks about the President and Torture

Last week, former Secretary of State Condi Rice stated at Stanford University regarding torture: “The president instructed us that nothing we would do would be outside of our obligation, legal obligations under the convention against torture… I conveyed the authorization of the administration to the agency. And so by definition, if it was authorized by the president, it did not violate our obligations under the Convention Against Torture.”

Rice backtracked on her previous comments in an interview this week and said: “I said at one point that it was ahhh, given, right that if the president authorized it, it was legal. This was not a “Nixon/Frost” moment. What I intended to say or what I meant to say about this is: The president said I won’t authorize anything that is illegal. It’s not that because he authorized it, it was legal…"