Bull Durham Update: Torture Tape Investigation Winding Down Again
There is a report out in the Washington Post that John Durham may be winding up his torture tape investigation and that little, if anything, will come from it.
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The IG Report Delay May Actually Be a Good Sign
Sure, the repeated delays of the IG Report have set it up to be released in a classical pre-holiday weekend document dump. But the delays actually give me hope we might get substantively new declassifications.
In April 2003, after Waterboarding Him 183 Times, the CIA Admitted KSM Was Lying to Them
The CIA wrote an analysis piece three days after the close of the month in which they waterboarded KSM 183 times. In it, they admitted KSM was lying to them.
If Harriet Can Appear Before HJC, Why Not Rove, Yet?
Three months ago HJC secured an agreement to have Karl Rove give a deposition to the Committee. But that hasn’t happened yet.
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.
Senate Judiciary Hearing on Torture, Two
Whitehouse: SASC report. Great deal of disagreement with OLC analysis. Mora called 2003 OLC memo profoundly in error. To extent that it relied on memo, did not include fair analysis. Chart based on OLC opinion. Green means go column. Read Admiral Dalton, that green column was wrong legally, embarrassing.
Senate Judiciary Hearing on Torture
Here’s the committee stream.
Whitehouse: Winston Churchill, truth always attended by bodyguard of lies. Sordid truth of torture accompanies by bodyguard of lies. Lies are legion. Bush told us America does not torture. Cheney agreed that waterboarding a dunk in the water. Former CIA said waterboarding once. Waterboarding determined to be legal, but not told how badly law ignored and bastardized, how furiously lawyers rejected OLC opinions.
The New Journalism
Sometimes tectonic shifts are underfoot and society fails to recognize the acts and effects. Such is the case with journalism and its daily outlets, newspapers and television. Newspapers are dying left and right, but it is not just their financial viability that is in freefall, it is their content. The new journalists, like Marcy Wheeler, are filling the void.
Zelikow’s Destroyed Memos
Last night, as I was beginning my catalog of the interrogation reports used in the 9/11 Report, the former Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission was on Rachel Maddow, elaborating on his Foreign Policy article where he revealed how the Bush Administration destroyed his objections to the May 2005 Bradbury Memos.
Anonymous Liberal had a very good take on Zelikow’s story (which basically matches what bmaz said to me via email).
The US Torture Regime – Where Is The Swift Justice?
Earlier, Marcy and Spencer wrote about the somewhat startling admission today by Susan Crawford that the United States tortured Mohammed al-Qahtani. Sounds like an admission against interest; I wonder when the war crimes trials will be starting?
