CIA has 'new guidance' on interrogation
Washington, DC, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- A senior CIA official says the agency has received new guidance from government lawyers on its detention and interrogation policies.
CIA acting General Counsel John Rizzo told a lawyers conference that since the repudiation earlier this year of memos arguing President Bush could lawfully order captured terrorists to be tortured, the agency had received new legal advice.
"We do not operate under repudiated guidance," he said.
He told the conference the CIA's policy on detention and interrogation -- which he declined to discuss in any detail -- was carried out "pursuant to the U.S. law and constitution" as interpreted by administration lawyers.
"We have operated, are operating under very specific and helpful Justice Department guidance," he said