Greg Sargent got a hold of Cheney’s FOIA request for the documents that will prove–he claims–that torture was effective. He’s asking for two documents, both of which were stored in his “detainees” file in his files. They are:CIA Report, dated July 13, 2004CIA Report, dated June 1, 2005

(I’m a little confused about what the two different forms refer to, as they seem to refer to the same documents, though of

It appears more and more likely that the Harman story broke when it did in an attempt to keep her quiet about torture.

Crazy Pete Hoekstra wants to be governor. So he’s going to spin in the WSJ to try to clear his complicity in torture.

DOD is going to release a whole slew of detainee abuse pictures next month.

Some lessons on the 3 Rs for the Cliff May and the other folks at N_O, who apparently don’t know this stuff.

Reading

First, read before you write. Because when you write, Under a strict set of rules, every pour of water had to be counted — and the number of pours was limited.

The biggest piece of news from this exchange? Liz Cheney’s assertion that (only) two of the three detainees who were waterboarded (speaking of Abu Zubaydah and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed) provided valuable intelligence. Or, to put it another way, Rahin al-Nashiri did not provide valuable intelligence.

GAO says that advanced technology cars may not have the ROI GM needs to become profitable again.

Jane and I had a chat yesterday with Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the Chair of the House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties to talk about his call for a special prosecutor to investigate the torture program. Chairman Nadler was clear: “You don’t have much choice under the law–you have to investigate.” The law requires, he explained, that such allegations be investigated.

Is James Mitchell the “psychologist/interrogator” who performed a psychological profile of Abu Zubaydah declaring him fit to be tortured?

Abu Zubdaydah’s FBI interrogator, Ali Soufan, removes the legal cornerstone of the entire torture regime in an op-ed in the NYT.