Withholding Torture Timelines
By my count, the CIA is now withholding five of its own timelines pertaining to its torture program. Man, I hate when people won’t give me their timelines!
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Why the CIA Would Want to Hide May 2002 from Judge Hellerstein (and the ACLU)
I’ve had a couple of really weedy posts examining the CIA’s response to the torture FOIA (Cherry-Pick One, Cherry-Pick Two, FOIA Exemptions). And I wanted to pull back a bit, and explain what I think they might mean.
We’re getting all these documents because the CIA is trying to avoid being held in contempt for not revealing the now-destroyed torture tapes in a response to this FOIA in 2004.
The CIA’s Cherry Pick, Two
Earlier, I suggested the CIA didn’t want to give Judge Hellerstein the earliest deliberative documents on Abu Zubaydah. It appears they don’t want to reveal details of their own investigation into waterboarding, either.
WaPo Doubles Down on Conflict Over Truth
In spite of the fact that it is becoming increasingly clear to the rest of the media that Porter Goss and Nancy Pelosi agree that they were not briefed that the CIA had already been torturing prisoners in September 2002, the WaPo has decided to double down on deliberately misreading events.
The Context of the Torture Index
I wanted to return to the torture index released to ACLU the other day to comment on what the CIA claims to have in terms of records.
First, remember what this index is. The April 21 order required CIA to turn over two things. Records “relating to the content” of the torture tapes “from the entire period of the tapes that were destroyed” (This stuff is referred to as “Paragraph 3”
John Durham’s Torture Tape Documents
Jason Leopold reported on and posted a late update to the ongoing torture tape FOIA exchange. If I read the latest exchange correctly, Special Prosecutor John Durham is at least identifying–and potentially making available through FOIA–a number of recent documents on the torture tape destruction.
Today’s letter does two things. First, it withdraws John Durham’s objection to Judge Hellerstein’s order that:
The government shall produce documents relating to the destruction of the
The CIA Won’t Give Abu Zubaydah His Own Diaries
The government is withholding key volumes from Abu Zubaydah’s diaries, which not only would reveal he was critical of 9/11, but that he was tortured at the hands of the CIA.
Bob Graham: It Was OCA, with the Briefing, in the Hart Senate Building
Bob Graham says OCA, not CTC, conducted his one “torture” briefing. He also said the location of the brieing–in the Hart Senate Office Building and not the White House–shows that the briefing was not highly classified.
The Two Torture Tape Suspects, the Pelosi Briefing, and the Panetta Statement
A lot of people are nervous about Panetta’s statement in response to Pelosi’s accusation that CIA lied. It makes a lot more sense when you consider it against the background of the torture tape destruction.
The Five Criminal Referrals WaPo Doesn’t Report
The torture apologists want you to believe that the CIA never referred any torture for criminal investigation. But that doesn’t seem to be right.
