John A. Rizzo
Male, Person
1948 –
Who is John A. Rizzo?
John A. Rizzo was a lawyer at the Central Intelligence Agency for 34 years. He was the Deputy Counsel or Acting General Counsel of the CIA for the first nine years of the War on Terror, during which the CIA held dozens of detainees in black site prisons around the globe. "Enhanced interrogation techniques" were approved by the George W. Bush administration's Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice in memos to Rizzo for use by CIA interrogators at the black sites. Rizzo signed off on all CIA-directed drone strikes from September 2001 until October 2009.
He is a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Senior Counsel at the Steptoe & Johnson law firm.
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- Born
- 1948
Boston - Education
- Brown University
- The George Washington University Law School
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on July 23, 2013
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