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.
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The CIA’s Cherry-Pick
Did the CIA cherry-pick which documents it gave Judge Hellerstein to avoid turning over incriminating cables?
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”
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.
Pincus and CIA Panic
Walter Pincus writes a story confirming the argument I made on Saturday about the purpose of Panetta’s statement to 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 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.
Breaking News!! CIA Manipulating Briefing Process!!
No. Not really breaking. We knew that CIA was playing around with its obligation to inform the intelligence committees before it starts any big new projects–like opening torture factories around the world.
But that’s the real story of this briefing list–aside from what a bunch right wingers are claiming it says, the actual details of the briefing list notwithstanding.
If It Sounds Too Good for the Goss, It’s Worth a Second Gander
Something stinks about Porter Goss’ claim to have stood against torture in December 2005: Robert Grenier, head of Counterterrorism, was fired a month later for being insufficiently pro-torture.
