In his youthful apprenticeship in the intel trade, so i’ve read online. Sorry no linky.

But it does not have a link to the Spanish-language training materials themselves. I did find them through the SOAWatch site and am now in the tediously grueling process of converting the PDF’s via OCR to DOC files, cleaning up the formatting and preparing for translation from Spanish.

What I can read in Spanish so far doesn’t rattle me, but it clearly doesn’t match the 1983 Human Exploitation manual or any other manual I’ve seen so far. More to come, but it’s going to be slow going, taken me nearly 8 hours to get to 1/3 of two documents readable in Spanish. Hope the next two hundred pages go faster…

Kinda implies there are records “all of which are still classified” that give the lie to alleged value of torture.

Conspire to deliberately withhold vital data? Rico?

Does anyone remember the statements made by Yoo about the president not having to obey the law on maiming?
That is one statute that describes the crimes in detail.
Yoo was saying if President Bush wanted to, he could literally order the gouging of someone’s eyes out or pour a caustic substance such as acid on them and not break the law.

That’s some sense of entitlement, eh?

Now the question for Rizzo would be to see the commumications between him, Addington, Gonzales, and Tenet. The communications are surely available. The real question is how do we access them. I have predicted all along that Addington will be the culprit and the mover and shaker in these conversations.

Yes. We are only getting the least shocking titbits.

Imagine if everything was exposed (except, of course, for truly sensitive security stuff).

Objection the Second: Investigations frequently begin with lower-level officials and then work upwards. Or do you think all the important revelations have already come out? Buy popcorn, watch, and wait.

The legislative branch writes the laws
The judicial branch interprets the laws
The executive branch impelements and enforces the laws.

Why the interest in 4 memo writers when there were many that approved it and allowed it to happen. Those 4 only gave an opinion, good or bad. They didn’t give the go ahead. They didn’t have the power.

People are only going after them because they are weak, easy targets.

Cheney, Pelosi, Rockefeller, Hoekstra, Tenet, Shelby, Graham–those people did have the power to give the green light, and they did.

When I see people calling for the heads of those 6, then I will know they are serious.

The whole fucking thing is illusory. Cobbled together out of air.

That just makes the “covered by the four corners of the OLC memos” wording of the pass that Obama articulated an even sharper weapon. He’s bending over backwards to accept the pretext being offered, even though it’s now being shown to be utterly vacuous — and still the uncovered space for pursuing investigations leading to prosecutions is just plain vast.