Well, as a card carrying member of the bar, I have to say it is about time that American lawyers learned something from their feisty compatriots in Pakistan. Sure enough, they have done exactly that as the National Lawyers Guild is going after Haynes and Yoo.

Remember how, on two different occasions, Arthur “Pinch” Sulzberger went out of his way to hide Dick Cheney’s crimes? Well now he’s got his son doing it for the family paper.

It sounds like Obama has told Tim Geithner to go back to Edward Liddy and explain that $100 million bonuses are unacceptable.

I’m glad that Obama did this (after seeing the outrage in Congress no doubt). I’m still astounded that Geithner needed to be told. And I’m still suspicious that Geithner was responding to threats from AIG that no one is much talking about.

AIG seems to be saying to Tim Geithner that, if the US doesn’t let AIG pay its AIGFP managers their bonuses, those managers might trigger events that would put the US government on the line for billions more in payments.

I’m still angry that you did not pardon Scooter. And I consider it fair game for my memoir. Love, Dick

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.

As you may recall, since February 27, we have been waiting for a decision, of some sort, from Vaughn Walker in the al-Haramain and Consolidated litigation in NDCA. The decision is not in yet; however, there is a new filing in the consolidated cases further ingraining the oneness of Obama with Bush in the litigation.

Barack Obama’s DOJ finished it’s homework assignment: to tell the Courts how it will deal with all the men Bush detained. But it basically amounts to renaming the same authorities and powers Bush claimed.

A number of people have pointed to EO 12333 in their discussions of whether or not Cheney’s assassination squads are legal. But that’s precisely the EO that we have reason to suspect got pixie dusted–or changed, without any public record of the change.

Apparently, we’re not allowed to know what’s in the IP treaty Bush negotiated last fall.