CIA Refuses to Turn Over Torture Tape Library
The CIA put together an inventory of their torture tape library. But they are not going to hand it over.
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The Abu Zubaydah Experiment
The New Yorker has a piece with long excerpts from the leaked Red Cross report on American torture of high value detainees. The article sure makes it sound like the torture tapes were an attempt to document which torture methods worked and which did not. Which I guess explains why they had to be destroyed.
A Few Thoughts on the Torture Tape Inventory
We can discern a few details from the torture tape inventory the ACLU just got.
Spanking Spak and Spec
Arlen “Scottish Haggis” Specter has debased himself to fronting for the intellectually flaccid Hans von Spakovsky. Really. Is this what the conservative movement has come to?
Conyers Invokes the CIA Inspector General Report on Torture
Every time I’ve raised the 2004 CIA IG report on torture on the Hill, whomever I’ve been talking to has gotten all hush hush, as if even they had to pretend the report never existed. Today, Conyers invoked it as one of the things that a Commission investigating the crimes of Bush and Cheney would focus on.
Crappy Record-Keeping: A Feature, Not a Bug
Add Gitmo files to the long list of scandals that the Bush Administration kept no meaningful records of.
Cheney and Your 3 Ounce Shampoo Bottles
Suskind provides details of how Bush and Cheney ordered up a torture scare just in time for elections. And as a result, you’re still surviving off of hotel shampoo when you travel.
Pelosi Appoints Dusty Foggo and Jose Rodriguez’ Buddy to Ethics Committee
Nancy Pelosi just appointed one of the most ethically impaired Congressmen this side of the Abramoff mob to be in charge of Congress’ Ethics Review Board.
Pardon Watch: The Betting Pool
Who do YOU think Bush will pardon in his last days in office?
Helgerson and Cheney
It’s going to be a busy day for me, but one thing I’m hoping to do is nick down to Borders (hey, this branch is unionized, and Borders is local to Ann Arbor) to buy Jane Mayer’s new book. If for no other reason then to find out more about the meeting between John Helgerson, the CIA Inspector General, and Dick Cheney.
One of the lingering mysteries in Washington has been what
