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I’ve been saying for over 18 months that the IG Report was the precipitating factor in the CIA’s decision to destroy the torture tapes. It looks increasingly like I was right.

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Does Lanny Breuer Have a Conflict in the Cheney Interview FOIA Case?

August 5, 2009/in CIA Leak Case/by emptywheel

Lanny Breuer provided John Kiriakou, who responded to Dick Cheney’s inquiries at CIA about Joe Wilson, with at least $5000 of legal services. Doesn’t that mean he probably shouldn’t have been the guy at DOJ who submitted a declaration insisting on keeping Cheney’s interview with Patrick Fitzgerald secret?

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Panetta’s Parsings

July 21, 2009/in Intelligence/by emptywheel

Royce Lamberth really smacked down Leon Panetta’s declaration in the Horn v. Huddle case. That probably going to make it a lot easier for other plaintiffs to question his good faith going forward.

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CIA Fraud In State Secrets Assertions

July 20, 2009/in emptywheel, Intelligence, Law, state secrets/by bmaz

There is a new case causing a stir on the state secrets front today. The case is Horn v. Huddle et. al, is filed in the DC District, and has been quietly going on behind the scenes since 1994. From Del Wilber at the Washington Post:A federal judge has ruled that government officials committed fraud while defending a lawsuit brought by a former DEA agent who accused a CIA operative

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CIA: A Different Kind of Derivative Trading

July 20, 2009/in Torture/by emptywheel

The CIA explains away its Vaughn Index sampling gaps by claiming documents listed on its index as cables are derivative, not original reporting on the torture.

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CIA Sticks with Its Waterboarding Shiny Object Strategy

July 10, 2009/in Torture, Torture Tape/by emptywheel

The CIA argues that they’re not claiming the torture documents are classified because they’re trying to hide a crime, but argue at the same time that the descriptions of the techniques as practiced have to remain classified because they’re not the same as the abstract descriptions.

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Was Porter Goss Briefed on Things Pelosi and Harman Weren’t?

July 10, 2009/in Intelligence, War/by emptywheel

Porter Goss was in early Iraq War meetings, alone among Congressmen. Was he also at other meetings that the Bush Administration points to to claim notification to Congress?

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