Everything Leaks
I wonder whether when Dick said, “everything leaks” in a recent interview with Politico he knew the CIA was desperately trying to manage the leak of the news that they had destroyed videos of Al Qaeda torture sessions?
Marcy Wheeler is an independent journalist writing about national security and civil liberties. She writes as emptywheel at her eponymous blog, publishes at outlets including Vice, Motherboard, the Nation, the Atlantic, Al Jazeera, and appears frequently on television and radio. She is the author of Anatomy of Deceit, a primer on the CIA leak investigation, and liveblogged the Scooter Libby trial.
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I wonder whether when Dick said, “everything leaks” in a recent interview with Politico he knew the CIA was desperately trying to manage the leak of the news that they had destroyed videos of Al Qaeda torture sessions?
Timeline collecting the torture memos, known changes in image guidelines, and key comings and goings in the torture saga.
I joked a few weeks ago that the CIA needed a dedicated torture tape librarian, because they keep losing such tapes. Today’s NYT story suggests such losses are, at least in two cases, deliberate.
Guess what?!?!? John Bolton is an intellectually sloppy and inconsistent man.
The intelligence analysts had to present the intelligence underlying the NIE at a meeting in the Situation Room two weeks ago. Unsurprisingly, Dick Cheney was there, twisting arms again.
John Bolton says the NIE is wrong because it was written by those at State who tried to correct his delusions about Iraq. But it seems they’ve brought some sound sourcing requirements that were precisely the kind of thing Bolton tried to avoid when he drummed up the war in Iraq.
Hillary’s attack on Obama’s college caucus-goers in IA betrays not just cynicism, but real ignorance about how HAVA has affected college voters.
Balducci’s plea agreement tells us what we all suspected about the Dickie Scruggs case: Balducci, the guy who originally offered the bribe, did flip on the other alleged co-conspirators.
A timeline of the drafting of the NIE and related items.
It sure looks like the withdraw of support for a UN statement supporting the Annapolis peace plan relates to the release of the NIE.