US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice testifies before the House Appropriations Committee on the State Department's international affairs budget 21 March, 2007 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The CIA first sought in May 2002 to use harsh interrogation techniques including waterboarding on terror suspects, and was given key early approval by then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, a US Senate intelligence document said. The agency got the green light to use the near-drowning technique on July 26, 2002, when attorney general John Ashcroft concluded "that the use of waterboarding was lawful," the Senate Intelligence Committee said in a detailed timeline of the "war on terrorism" interrogations released on April 22, 2009. Getty Images logo Getty Images 34 months ago

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice testifies before the House Appropriations Committee on the State Department's international affairs budget 21 March, 2007 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The CIA first sought in May 2002 to use harsh interrogation techniques including waterboarding on terror suspects, and was given key early approval by then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, a US Senate intelligence document said. The agency got the green light to use the near-drowning technique on July 26, 2002, when attorney general John Ashcroft concluded "that the use of waterboarding was lawful," the Senate Intelligence Committee said in a detailed timeline of the "war on terrorism" interrogations released on April 22, 2009.

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