Original sentence: Recently revealed information indicates that while the use of the interrogation methods in question was a subject of serious contention, even some in the Bush Administration who believed that using tough tactics was a serious mistake agreed the methods themselves were legal
Edited sentence: " Zelikow also alleged that Bush administration officials not only ignored his memos, but attempted to destroy them.Comey), no one in that department argued the methods themselves were clearly illegal.Constitutional Law in this area was strained and indefensible.However, some in branches of the Bush administration believed that the teqniques were illegal.I could not imagine any federal court in America agreeing that the entire CIA program could be conducted and it would not violate the American Constitution.It has been reported that while the use of the interrogation methods in question was opposed by some in the Bush Justice Department (such as James B.Navy general counsel Alberto Mora campaigned internally against what he saw as the "catastrophically poor legal reasoning" of the memo.Philip D.Secretary of State Colin Powell strongly opposed the invalidation of the Geneva Conventions,, while U.Zelikow, former State Department adviser to Condoleezza Rice, testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee, "It seemed to me that the OLC interpretation of U