The Senate Armed Services Committee just released its report on torture.

Spencer has a post on it here.

Remember, as you’re reading it, that not only did they repurpose SERE. But we know they went far beyond SERE in its application.

I’ll be reading it as I fall asleep and should have more detailed comments tomorrow morning.

It sounds like Cheney’s only asking for CIA to disclose information on what torture produced so he can use it for his memoirs.

Spencer’s story on a previously unknown 2007 OLC memo suggests the CIA continued to distrust Bush’s willingness to give them policy cover for torture.

The Village has been out in force declaring that Obama’s decision to release the torture memos will hurt the morale of CIA’s employees. But there are those in the CIA who it will reassure.

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Now for an update from the most loathsome intersection of the financial and the auto crisis…

You’ll recall that last we heard, Chrysler was hoping to stay alive long enough to have Fiat’s Sergio Marchionne swoop in and save it. Even if that happens, though, Chrysler will need to get some customers to buy its cars until such a time as Marchionne can do his magic.

And to get customers, they’re

When I suggested Jane Harman shouldn’t undercut Democratics in the House on FISA in 2007, she badly over-reacted. I wonder whether her reaction has anything to do with today’s story in CQ?

John McCain thinks waterboarding KSM 183 times in a month is a bad idea (to his credit he says any use of waterboarding is a bad idea). Even still, he thinks releasing the torture memos was wrong. I wonder if that’s because the memos reveal the disdain with which the Bush Administration treated Congressional efforts to end the torture program?

Another day another Ponzi scheme broken up by the SEC.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a Philadelphia-area investment adviser and its principal with misappropriating millions of dollars in client assets, and obtained an emergency court order freezing their assets.

The SEC alleges that through a commingled brokerage account, Donald Anthony Walker Young of Coatesville, Pa., and Acorn Capital Management, LLC misappropriated more than $23 million from investors buying limited partnership interests

Jane Harman was not illegally wiretapped. On the contrary, she very stupidly said things to someone who was widely reported to be under investigation.

Remember how Alberto Gonzales made notes of the March 10, 2004 Gang of Eight meeting so he could blackmail members of Congress on the warrantless wiretap program? Well, it seems to have worked.