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The CIA documents released in the latest FOIA batch prove that all the claims that CIA (and Crazy Pete Hoekstra) have made about briefings Congress received on torture are, at best, reconstructions based on years old memories, if not outright fabrications. The documents appear to have been a summary of torture briefings CIA Office of […]
Anyone feel like they drowning under the weight of a really horrible bureaucracy yet. DOJ IG Documents (1) DOJ IG Documents (2) CIA Documents DOD Documents OLC Documents Consider this a working thread. Jeff Kaye–see the first document in the OLC batch, which pertains to Appendix M. In CIA Thread, PDF 3 is a document […]
I just re-read Philippe Sands’ Torture Team and, given the news of disappearing emails and documents, this passage struck me anew: [Mike Dunlavey, who was in charge of Gitmo as they put together the torture plan for Mohammed al-Qahtani] would have liked to have gone back to the daily diaries and schedules that were kept […]
Practically the first thing Pat Roberts did after he became Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee was to back down off nascent efforts Bob Graham had made as SSCI Chair to exercise real oversight over the torture program. That’s one of the most important details revealed in the Memo for the Record [big PDF] of […]
In the midst of all the excitement over the OPR release, there’s an equally revealing FOIA release in CCR and Amnesty International’s Ghost Detainee FOIA. I will do very detailed posts on each of the Memoranda for the Record included in this release. But here’s a general overview of what is included in the release: […]
One more tiny detail from the torture tape FOIA. Document 27, dated July 28, 2005, and titled, “DNI News” is described as “a one-page email with a CIA attorney’s opinion, conveyed to his client, regarding the DNI’s position [sic] the destruction of the videotapes.” We know a little bit about what the email might say […]
As a number of you have pointed out, the House Intelligence Committee have revealed preliminary results of its investigations into the CIA’s lies and found–wait for it–the CIA lies. In a hearing of the House Intelligence committee this afternoon, Reps. Anna Eshoo and Jan Schakowsky, both Democrats, pointed to at least five instances going back […]