According to NSA intercepts, Jane Harman agreed to help AIPAC avoid criminal charges in exchange for AIPAC’s help getting the HPSCI Chairmanship.

It was late and welcome news Friday afternoon when Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision in the al-Haramain case came in. The seminal importance of Walker’s decision to allow the matter to proceed against the fierce efforts to dismiss it by the government simply cannot be overstated.

We know the August 1, 2002 memo directly pertained to Abu Zubaydah. We know the 2005 memos were, in part, addressed to Hassan Ghul. Is there a 2003 memo addressing whether KSM could be waterboarded?

Not only did the CIA IG Report reveal that KSM had been waterboarded 183 times. But it did so as part of a larger discussion challenging the efficacy of such methods.

The torture apologists are out there claiming that we got “half” of what we “know” on al Qaeda from torture. But as the May 30, 2005 Bradbury memo makes clear, they’re talking about sheer number of reports, not quality of information.

David Johnston wrote an article shortly after Bush brought the High Value Detainees to Gitmo. It helps elucidate a lot of the details we’re seeing in the torture memos. And the torture memos serve to explain why the FBI-CIA dispute he portrayed took the form it did.

According to one of the OLC memos, KSM was waterboarded 183 times in one month.

The AP reports that George Tenet and Porter Goss have criticized Obama’s release of the torture memos.

Of course they would. Those memos, after all, implicate both of them legally.

There’s a BusinessWeek report that confirms two things I’ve been arguing for a while: that Bob Nardelli will be ousted no matter what happens with Chrysler in the upcoming two weeks.

Chrysler CEO Robert Nardelli confirmed in a letter to employees today that he will likely be replaced as CEO of the automaker in the coming weeks as the company faces either an alliance with Italian automaker Fiat or a bankruptcy

The ironies surrounding Richard Convertino continue to mount.