U.S.-Cuba Policy Initiative: Publications, Events and MoreProgram-Related content, mainly for RSS feedLawrence Wilkerson testimony in United Press International 'Witness: Cheney Probably Knew of Torture'- June 19, 2008 New America in the News: A former U.S. military official says U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney may have known military personnel were using torture techniques on Iraqi detainees. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson told a House panel he thought leadership failed "at the highest levels of the Pentagon, in the vice president's office and perhaps even in the Oval Office," The Washington Times reported Thursday. Wilkerson's testimony followed a report by a human rights group that detainees in...http://www.newamerica.net/pressroom/2008/lawrence_wilkerson_testimony_united_press_interna... Lawrence Wilkerson in the Atlantic ''Disgrace', Ctd.'- June 19, 2008 New America in the News: The Daily Dish:...Larry Wilkerson, Colin Powell's former chief of staff explains what this means in terms any morally responsible person would understand: "As I compiled my dossier for Secretary Powell, as I did further research, and as my views grew firmer and firmer, I needed frequently to reread that memo. I needed to balance, in my own mind, the overwhelming evidence that my own government had sanctioned abuse and torture which, at its worst, had led to the.http://www.newamerica.net/pressroom/2008/lawrence_wilkerson_atlantic_disgrace_ctd |