House Republicans today tried to pummel Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton with questions about the administration’s decision to release Justice Department memos permitting tough interrogation techniques of detainees, but she gave no ground.
At one point during Clinton’s hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) cited former vice president Richard Cheney, who has claimed that the administration is suppressing documents that show a more positive picture of the effectiveness of techniques and also that the Bush administration tried to correct problems as they arose.
“It won’t surprise you that I don’t consider him a particularly reliable source of information,” Clinton shot back.
Go Hillary.
–Ann Bartow
