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Is This Why Rosenberg Recused?

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The AP reveals that prosecutors in the Alexandria US Attorney’s Office–including the lead prosecutor in the Moussaoui case–did know of the torture tapes in early 2006, before Moussaoui was sentenced.

The lead prosecutor in the terror case against Zacarias Moussaoui may have known the CIA destroyed tapes of its interrogations of an al-Qaida suspect more than a year before the government acknowledged it to the court, newly unsealed documents indicate.

The documents, which

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152

Emptywheel’s Famous Football Trash Talk* Super Bowl XLII Edition

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Show Time Baby! The big one is upon us. Whats up with Tom’s boot? That Giselle is kinda cute. Michael Strahan is a hoot. It is all happening right here in the Valley of the Sun; and currently Valley of the unusually cold. But the sun is shining, the stars are all here and everybody is working to the weekend. Beer thirty is going to start now and go until the fat lady is done singing. Crack open a cool one and start trashing up the joint.

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153

AG Claims Clear Evidence of Legal Liability Does Not Constitute a Basis for Investigation

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AG Mukasey claims that DOJ has never gotten any facts that would warrant an investigation. But that’s not true. We know DOJ received the results of the CIA IG’s report in 2004, showing that the interrogation techniques depicted on the torture tapes constituted cruel and inhuman treatment in violation of the International Convention against Torture.

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157

Judge Hellerstein Calls the CIA on its BS

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Wow. Judge Hellerstein is not amused with the CIA’s assertion that the torture tapes–which IG staffers flew to Thailand to view as part of their investigation into CIA interrogation methods–were not part of their investigation. Nor does he buy the assertion that the “special review” is not an investigation. He basically called Bull on the CIA’s assertions in about six different ways.

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158

“It Smells Like a Cover-Up”

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The most interesting tidbit from John Rizzo’s appearance before HPSCI yesterday is that Rizzo reported lawyers within CIA admitting the 9/11 Commission would probably want to see the torture tapes. If lawyers within CIA recognized the Commission wanted the tapes, then surely George Tenet did. But he declined to mention the tapes to the Commission. No wonder he lawyered up recently.

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159

The Dubious Timeline from Pincus’ Love Letter to Bob Bennett

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I’ve already ranted about how irresponsible it was for Walter Pincus and Joby Warrick to publish Bob Bennett’s statement on behalf of Jose Rodriguez on the same day that John Rizzo testifies before Congress. Nothing like assisting the obstruction of an ongoing investigation. But now that I’ve done my ranting (and enjoyed the sun), here is the dubious timeline offered in Pincus and Warrick’s article.

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160

A Cheap Ploy to Avoid Giving Testimony, Jose Rodriguez

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Today’s article from Joby Warrick and Walter Pincus answers a lot of questions we’ve been asking about the torture tapes–the biggest being that the tapes were stored and destroyed in Thailand. And it has a lot of interesting details. But its evident, overriding purpose, is to allow Jose Rodriguez and John Rizzo to coordinate stories before the latter testifies before Congress today.

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