Bush legal aide: I didn't authorize all the interrogation measures used

A former Bush Justice Department official who approved brutal interrogation methods by the C.I.A. has told Congress that he never authorized several other rough tactics reportedly inflicted on terrorism suspects — including prolonged shackling to a ceiling and repeated beatings…

“Those techniques were not authorized,” he said, according to a transcript released Thursday by the committee…

Much of the day consisted of Judge Bybee defending his legal conclusions.

Read quotations criticizing the memorandums from his successor at the Office of Legal Counsel — Jack Goldsmith, a Bush appointee who is now a Harvard law professor — Judge Bybee said that Mr. Goldsmith and other such critics had “misinterpreted and misread” the documents and noted that lawyers frequently disagreed.