Rizzo traveled with David Addington , the Vice President 's chief of staff ; William Haynes , General Counsel of the Department of Defense ; and Michael Chertoff , then the head of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice , to consult with officers at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in late September 2002 . One week later , a CIA lawyer told personnel with the military intelligence interrogation team at Guantanamo that , " if the detainee dies , you 're doing it wrong . " In 2005 , CIA lawyers reviewed copies of videotapes made during interrogation of detainees and expressed their concerns to Rizzo . He requested the OLC to issue new statements about the legality of the enhanced interrogation techniques . The '' Los Angeles Times '' reported that Rizzo was becoming " increasingly anxious in the years after the Sept. 11 attacks that agency employees were being pressured to use methods that might later place them in legal jeopardy . " The OLC issued three memos , signed by Steven G. Bradbury , then head of OLC , in May 2005 that stated the techniques did not violate the Convention Against Torture , as ratified by the United States in 1994 . Later in 2005 , Rizzo traveled with other CIA officials , including Kyle Foggo , to several black sites , to assure CIA employees that their interrogation activities were legal . The CIA destroyed most of the detainee interrogation videotapes in 2005
Sept. 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
John A. Rizzo